“Rebuffed at U.S. Supreme Court, Delaware judicial protester gets OK for new lawsuit”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“The ‘shadow docket’ further erodes the Supreme Court’s legitimacy”: Law professor Steve Vladeck has this essay online at CNN.

“The Supreme Court and Race: A Sordid History is About to Repeat Itself.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The End of Affirmative Action Is the Supreme Court’s Next Big Gift to the Conservative Legal Movement; Right-wing activists have been campaigning for decades to prevent schools from considering students’ race in the admissions process; With this Court, they have their best shot yet at succeeding”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The January 6 committee has its sights on Ginni Thomas. She should be worried. The spouse of a sitting supreme court justice allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election. It’s hard to say which looks worse — the conflicts of interest, or the possibility that she aided a would-be insurrection.” Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Guardian (UK).

“Will U.S. Supreme Court hear another case from Oklahoma linked to McGirt ruling?” Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report.

“NC case at Supreme Court ‘should keep every American up at night,’ ex-AG Eric Holder says”: Will Doran of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

“NYU Law Forum — Supreme Court (P)review”: NYU School of Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Judges Are Playing ‘Calvinball’ With the Constitution Because They’re Mad Trump Was Banned From Twitter; Conservative Fifth Circuit jurists took a sledgehammer to the First Amendment — using incoherent logic, incorrect law-reading, and fake history”: Mike Masnick has this essay online at The Daily Beast.

“The Supreme Court’s new term could be even more consequential than its last one; The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Justices Urged to Weigh Social Media Laws Amid Appeals Split”: Jennifer Kay of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Supreme Court Is About to Display Its Power Imbalance Again; The justices begin a new term on Oct. 3, and cases involving the Clean Water Act, LGBTQ protections, voting rights, and affirmative action could be as controversial as the last round”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Top State Judges Make a Rare Plea in a Momentous Supreme Court Election Case; In a surprising filing, state chief justices opposed an argument pressed by Republicans — that state legislatures may set federal election rules unconstrained by state constitutions”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Big Tech Has No Constitutional Right to Censor; That’s the upshot of recent court cases in Texas and Florida, testing state bills that curb such activity”: Columnist Allysia Finley will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Why Lawyers Love Jackpot Talc Litigation: The bankruptcy code helps claimants and J&J — but not the tort bar.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Judge won’t toss suit over Delaware court political balance”: Randall Chase of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Democratic Gov. John Carney over Delaware’s requirement for political balance on its courts.”

Update: You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware at this link. (via @chancery_daily).

“In latest Goldman ‘Abacus’ class action argument, appeals court seems split”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post about an oral argument (download the audio via this link) that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard Wednesday, in which Kannon K. Shanmugam argued against Thomas C. Goldstein.

The panel apparently had originally allocated 20 minutes (10 minutes per side) for the oral argument. The oral argument ended up lasting longer than an hour and 20 minutes.

“The Story of a Forgotten Black Supreme Court Advocate From the 19th Century; Cornelius Jones, one of the few Black Supreme Court advocates of his time, is remembered”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“U.S. abortion restrictions absolutely do not align with European law”: Leah Hoctor has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Wrong Trump Judge at the Right Time Can Wreak Havoc”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Arizona’s 1864 law banning abortion in most circumstances in effect, judge rules”: Ray Stern and Stacey Barchenger of The Arizona Republic have this report.

Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star reports that “Outright abortion ban is the Arizona law, Pima County judge rules.”

And Laura Kusisto and Jennifer Calfas of The Wall Street Journal report that “Arizona Can Enforce Near-Total Abortion Ban Blocked for 50 Years, Judge Rules; Ruling ends months of confusion over abortion access in state after U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”

“Yeshiva University Loses On The Shadow Docket, Wins On The Penumbra Docket; SCOTUS nudges the lower courts and parties into compliance”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Says Alabama Can Kill Prisoner With Method He Fears; Alan Eugene Miller says that he is afraid of needles and that the state lost his request to die by nitrogen hypoxia; The court decided that the state could proceed with lethal injection instead”: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times has this report.

You can access last night’s 5-to-4 order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link. Notwithstanding the order, the execution was postponed (see here and here).

“Linda Greenhouse discusses Supreme Court at UD; Former New York Times reporter delivers Soles Lecture”: Margo McDonough of UDaily has this report.

“Breyer warns justices that some opinions could ‘bite you in the back’ in exclusive interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court should tread carefully on internet speech”: The Washington Post has published this editorial.

“Justice Dept. says it would defend Veterans Affairs medical workers in abortion cases; This narrow policy underscores just how few legal tools the Biden administration has to significantly shape abortion rights in the country”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

“Affirmative Action Cases Lead What Could Prove Another Momentous Supreme Court Term”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“Trump Claims He Declassified Documents. Why Don’t His Lawyers Say So in Court? Judges this week highlighted the gap between Mr. Trump’s public claims that he declassified everything and his lawyers’ reluctance to repeat that claim in a courtroom.” Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have this report.

“Judge Aileen Cannon’s Reign of Madness Is Over; Here’s why the 11th Circuit, including two Trump judges, ruled in favor of the Department of Justice”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Eleventh Circuit Cleans Up the Mess”: Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett, and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Trump’s Declassification Defense Draws Skepticism From Judges; Both appeals court and special master cast doubt on relevance of Trump’s claim that he declassified Mar-a-Lago documents”: Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“House Democrats introduce bill to expand U.S. appeals courts”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has a report that begins, “Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to add another 51 judges to the country’s federal appeals courts, a move they say is necessary to reduce case backlogs but that would also give President Joe Biden a chance to appoint more judges.”

“Adnan Syed’s Accidental Justice: His exoneration shows the legal system is designed to cement wrongful convictions, not correct them.” Law professor Lara Bazelon has this essay online at New York magazine.

“Affidavits: More pregnant minors who were raped denied Ohio abortions; Documents describe dozens of painful situations under Ohio abortion restrictions.” Marty Schladen of Ohio Capital Journal has this report.