“Beauty Pageants Have Constitutional Right to Limit Contestants to ‘Natural Born Females'”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke issued the majority opinion and a concurring opinion. Senior Circuit Judge Susan P. Graber issued a dissenting opinion.

“As Stakes Rise, State Supreme Courts Become Crucial Election Battlegrounds; Pivotal issues like abortion, gerrymandering and voting have been tossed into state justices’ laps; Politicians, ideological PACs and big money are following”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

“Abortion-Rights Protesters Disrupt US Supreme Court Argument; They denounce Dobbs ruling, call on women to vote next week; Outbursts are first in Supreme Court courtroom since 2015”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court arguments interrupted by protesters opposed to abortion ruling.”

And Jessica Schneider of CNN reports that “Women disrupt Supreme Court arguments to protest Dobbs decision.”

“The Courts Are the Only Thing Holding Back Total Election Subversion; The false claim of a stolen election metastasized into an election-denialist movement far worse than we could have ever imagined”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen, founder of the “Election Law Blog,” has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘only chance’ to stop 2020 election certification; ‘We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,’ Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in an email exchange”: Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, and Nicholas Wu of Politico have this report.