“Republicans’ Supreme Court argument on redistricting could backfire”: Sam Wang has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Is designer’s refusal to create website for same-sex wedding free speech or illegal discrimination?” Mark Walsh has this article online at ABA Journal.

And in commentary, in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Nicholas Tomaino will have an op-ed titled “Can Colorado Tell Lorie Smith and 303 Creative What to Say? The Supreme Court takes up a web designer’s right to abstain from same-sex weddings.”

“New York State Wants to Conscript Me to Violate the Constitution; A new law requires me to post a policy for dealing with ‘hate speech’ in comments on my blog”: Law professor Eugene Volokh will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Eugene has this related post.

“Appeals court halts special master review of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago in major defeat for Trump”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report on a unanimous per curiam decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued this evening.

“Originalism is bunk. Liberal lawyers shouldn’t fall for it.” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Biglaw’s Latest Cancel-Culture Controversy: Is expressing support for the SCOTUS decision in Dobbs now a firing offense?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Course correction underway at Yale Law, boycotting judges say; Two federal judges defended their barring of future Yale graduates from clerkships at a Buckley Program event but said they had noticed ‘positive improvements’; One judge confirmed that she would appear at a YLS-hosted event next year”: Ines Chomnalez of The Yale Daily News has this report.

And Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “Judges ‘Hope’ Their Planned Yale Clerk Ban Can Be Avoided.”

“U.S. Senate panel deadlocks on abortion rights lawyer’s judicial nomination”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Seth Stern of Bloomberg Law reports that “Senate Judiciary Deadlocks on Dobbs Lawyer for First Circuit.”

“Did the Court Have Jurisdiction in Dobbs?” Richard M. Re has this post at his blog, “Re’s Judicata.”

“A Selective Preview of the SCOTUS Oral Argument in 303 Creative v Ellenis (Web Designer Claiming Free Speech Right Not to Promote Same-Sex Weddings)”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Here’s how federal judges think about diversity in hiring law clerks; Most say they consider race as a factor when hiring but still struggle to build diverse chambers, a new article says”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report about a brand new law review article available online at SSRN titled “Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of The Federal Courts of Appeals,” written by Jeremy Fogel, law professor Mary Hoopes, and California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu.