“The Fifth Circuit Just Defunded the (Consumer Protection) Police; It’s good news for financial predators as a trio of Trump-appointed judges tees up a chance for the Supreme Court to take the CFPB’s cops off the beat”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Judge Ho’s Yale boycott is the best idea yet for pushing back on illiberal law schools”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay online at the Washington Examiner.

“SCOTUS maintains public silence on Dobbs opinion leak investigation”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Linda Greenhouse — What’s Happened to the Supreme Court: Reflections on 45 Years of Court Watching.” The Indiana University Maurer School of Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Remembering Judge Silberman”: The Federalist Society has posted on YouTube this discussion with D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory G. Katsas.

“How Iowa Supreme Court’s McDermott, Oxley have decided big cases”: Laura Belin has this post at her “Bleeding Heartland” blog.

“A U.S. Supreme Court justice, a couple of rock stars, and a bunch of academic dignitaries will cap Penn president inauguration; Dating back centuries, inaugurations brim with pomp and circumstance; Penn’s is one of five at local colleges this month”: Susan Snyder of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks the importance of civic engagement, her career on the bench; In a visit to Chicago, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discussed her work as a judge and reckoning with increasing polarization in today’s politics”: Kaitlin Washburn of The Chicago Sun-Times has this report.

And Eric Bradner and Shania Shelton of CNN report that “Sotomayor speaks about the new dynamic of having 4 women on Supreme Court.”