“A Federal Court Just Took Judicial Obstruction of Biden’s Presidency to a New Level; The 5th Circuit’s latest salvo is even more dangerous than it seems”: Online at Slate, law professor Jody Madeira has this jurisprudence essay about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Monday.

“Hamilton County Prosecutor Appointed as Supreme Court Justice”: Court News Ohio has a report that begins, “Joseph T. Deters, the longest-serving prosecutor in Hamilton County history, is appointed to serve as the 163rd justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.”

“The problem is too many Americans no longer trust the Supreme Court. The solution is clear.” Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Sacramento Bee.

“Why the Jan. 6 Committee Let Ginni and Clarence Thomas Off the Hook: When you’re a justice, they let you do it.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Hochul Taps First Latino Judge to Head New York’s Top Court; The nomination of Hector D. LaSalle, a moderate who leads a state court division, could anger Democratic lawmakers who wanted the governor to name a progressive”: Rebecca Davis O’Brien has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Denis Slattery of The New York Daily News reports that “Opposition mounts against Hochul’s chief judge pick as unions, Dems and advocates disapprove.”

Keshia Clukey and Fawn Johnson of Bloomberg Law report that “Hochul Angers Unions, Progressives With Top NY Judge Pick.”

At his “New York Appeals” blog, Rob Rosborough has a post titled “Governor Hochul Nominates Presiding Justice Hector LaSalle to be New York’s First Latino Chief Judge!”

In commentary, online at Slate, Alexander Sammon and Mark Joseph Stern have a jurisprudence essay titled “Kathy Hochul’s Nominee for New York’s Top Judge Is an Absolute Disaster for Democrats; The governor had a chance to reshape the state’s highest court; She blew it.”

And at his “Law Dork” Substack site, Chris Geidner has a post titled “New York’s Hochul, Ohio’s DeWine both pick conservative prosecutors for state high court openings.”

“Florida Supreme Court approves DeSantis call for coronavirus vaccine grand jury”: John Kennedy of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“For John Eastman and Clarence Thomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades; The Supreme Court justice and the lawyer referred by the House Jan. 6 panel for criminal investigation became acquainted years before Eastman served as Thomas’s clerk”: Emma Brown and Rosalind S. Helderman of The Washington Post have this report.