“The SCOTUS Tortoise and the Hare”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Supreme Court Case on State Legislatures Could Open Litigation Floodgates; The justices will hear arguments next month on a legal theory that could transform federal elections — and, experts said, lead to countless lawsuits”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“U.S. judiciary launches online database of judges’ financial disclosures”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

Today, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued a news release titled “New Database Eases Release of Judges’ Finance Reports.” You can access the database via this link.

“Have ‘Show-Off’ Appellate Court Opinions Jumped the Shark?” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s print edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

Thanks to Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas for his recent Harvard Law remarks on this subject — and Nate Raymond of Reuters for his coverage thereof — which together provided me with the inspiration to write this.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases. Last Friday, the Court granted review in four new cases.

“The Pa. Supreme Court has issued a second order on mail ballot dates as the legal fight continues; The justices on Saturday clarified what they meant when they ordered earlier this week that wrongly dated mail ballots be rejected; Meanwhile, a new lawsuit was filed in federal court on the issue”: Jonathan Lai and Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report on an order that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued Saturday.

“Supreme Court’s ‘sleeper’ case is major clash over Native American adoptions”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

“In 84th Supreme Court Appearance, Harvard Lawyer Seth P. Waxman ’73 Commands the Courtroom”: Rahem D. Hamid and Nia L. Orakwue of The Harvard Crimson have this report.

“Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court’s Troubled Treatment of Asian Americans; Students for Fair Admissions is one of only a few Supreme Court cases about the rights of Asian Americans; But what will it achieve on their behalf?” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this article online at The New Yorker.

“Tucson woman arrested in abortion-rights protest during Supreme Court hearing”: Haley Smilow of Cronkite News has this report.

And Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law reports that “Supreme Court Protest Gets Massage Therapist 30 Hours in Custody.”

“Supreme Court more diverse than lawyers who argue before it”: Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

“Yes, that was a U.S. Supreme Court justice at Citizens Bank Park for the Phillies World Series game; The Astros have a polarizing fan in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the Phillies have Justice Samuel Alito”: Ximena Conde of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

I did not see Justice Alito at last night’s game (he was seated on the third base side, while I was on the first base side, and his seat was one level below mine, but chances are he didn’t get a foul ball (or give it to a little kid in the row ahead of him)).

“The Business of the Supreme Court: The Evolution and Devolution of the Supreme Court’s Docket.” Last Friday, the Saint Louis University Law Journal hosted the Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture.

You can view the video of the day’s sessions via YouTube using the following links:

“The Business of the Supreme Court: Childress Lecture 2022 Keynote Speaker,” featuring law professor Steven Vladeck;

“The Business of the Supreme Court Panel 1: Intricacies of the Court“;

“The Business of the Supreme Court Panel 2: Interrelationships of the Court“; and

“The Business of the Supreme Court Panel 3: Covering the Court.”

“Bar association decries Supreme Court ad as false; Republican group doubles down”: Jim Gaines of The Dayton Daily News has this report.

“A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document”: Hansi Lo Wang of NPR has this report.

“When should Supreme Court members bench themselves? New cases reignite the recusal debate.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“A Federal Judge Calls Clarence Thomas’ Bluff on Gun Rights and Originalism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Originalism on Trial at the Supreme Court”: Online at Slate, law professor Aaron Tang has a jurisprudence essay that begins, “When opposing lawyers make similarly unsympathetic arguments at the Supreme Court, who should win? In an important case that will be argued on Tuesday, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, the answer will turn on a surprising question: whether the conservative justices are evenhanded — or instead hypocritical—adherents to their preferred theory of originalism.”

“James Ho’s Yale Law Boycott Only Matters If Students Allow It; The Yale administration’s doomed attempts to appease James Ho are part of the proud law school tradition of sucking up to established power”: Steve Kennedy has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“‘Judges gone wild’: Trump-appointed judge says too many write for Twitter; Judge Stephanos Bibas argues for succinct rulings to maintain public trust; Bibas to other judges: ‘Try to be on Twitter less than you otherwise would.'” Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“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.

“Rappers’ Lyrics Are Used Against Them in Court. The Music Industry Wants It to Stop. A Warner Music Group-led industry coalition is urging prosecutors and state and federal legislators to limit the use of hip-hop lyrics as evidence.” Neil Shah of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“The IRS and the Eighth Amendment: The Supreme Court takes up a case of a $2.72 million fine for a taxpayer’s error.” Travis Nix and Tyler Martinez will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Pa. Supreme Court orders counties to set aside undated and wrongly dated mail ballots and not count them”: Jonathan Lai and Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

You can access today’s order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Election Officials to Disallow Ballots with Missing or Incorrect Dates; The ruling came in a case brought by state and national Republicans.”

“A Diverse Supreme Court Questions the Value of Diversity; Since 1978, the sole justification for race-conscious admissions has been educational diversity; The rationale’s days may be numbered”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry; The court’s order said the questioning allowed by lower courts was limited and subject to appropriate safeguards”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report on an order that the U.S. Supreme Court issued today.

“Supreme Court Reaches TikTok; Katie Barlow, a lawyer and broadcaster, is teaching the public about the Supreme Court through two-minute TikToks”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Donor, Legacy, and Athlete Preferences in Higher Education Admissions: Art Museum and Squash Edition.” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“John Roberts shows he still has a grip on the Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.