“What Three Dissenters Can Do Now: Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor are perfectly aware of their situation.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake”: Colleen Slevin of The Associated Press has this report.

“Why Black people feel Jackson’s ‘seat at the table’ is ours, too”: Columnist Jonathan Capehart has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Laurence Silberman, Conservative Touchstone on the Bench, Dies at 86; From his powerful perch on the D.C. appeals court, he voided gun controls and challenged press freedoms but also upheld the Affordable Care Act”: Sam Roberts of The New York Times has written this obituary.

“Judge’s Yale clerk-hiring boycott ‘regrettable,’ conservative colleague says; 5th Circuit Judge Jerry Smith calls Judge James Ho’s Yale boycott ‘regrettable’; Smith says he hopes to receive ‘even more Yale applications’ for clerkships”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

Irony alert! After graduating from University of Chicago Law School in 1999, James C. Ho clerked for Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith.

“Appeals Court Rules Against DACA Immigration Program; Obama-era initiative benefiting young immigrants was unlawful, panel says, but it doesn’t cut off access for current program recipients”: Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Kevin McGill of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court orders another review of revised ‘DACA.’”

And Ted Hesson of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court sends DACA case back to lower court to consider new rules.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Justice Jackson makes waves in first Supreme Court arguments; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, has been a frequent questioner in her first week on the bench”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Her Mark Early, Often as US Supreme Court Work Begins; She spoke more than any other justice in term’s first two days; Jackson staked out positions in voting, environmental cases.”

And Joan Biskupic of CNN has a news analysis headlined “How the Supreme Court’s liberal justices sought to shape voting-rights arguments.”

“Convenience Chain Can’t Take Crash Suit Out Of Philly”: Jonathan Capriel of Law360 has this report (subscription required for full access) on a recent non-precedential ruling of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in a case on which I am appellate counsel for the plaintiffs.

“How the Supreme Court could change the internet as we know it; The court is poised to hear as many as three cases this term about the legal protections social media companies have used to become industry behemoths”: David Ingram of NBC News has this report.

And online at The New Republic, Matt Ford reports that “Big Tech’s Big Shield Goes to the High Court; The Supreme Court is going to get a crack at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — and the internet may never be the same.”

“Chief Justice Baer’s Unexpected Death Won’t Shake Pa.’s High Court, Lawyers Say”: Aleeza Furman of The Legal Intelligencer has this news analysis, in which I am quoted.

“The Ex Parte Young Cause of Action: A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma.” Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham and Adam Steene have posted this paper at SSRN.

“Robert Bork Was Conservative Legal Academia’s Original Cancel Culture Guy; Years before the U.S. Senate rejected his Supreme Court nomination, Bork was complaining about the inexorable leftward tilt of law schools everywhere”: David Edmon has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Supreme Advocate: An Interview With Paul Clement; The former solicitor general shares advice about oral argument, details about his departure from Kirkland, and concerns about the direction of Biglaw.” David Lat has posted the audio and a transcript of his newest podcast episode at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.