“‘Stakes are monstrous’: Wisconsin judicial race is 2023’s key election; Control of state supreme court could flip from conservative to liberal with big consequences for most gerrymandered US state.” Sam Levine of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

And Alexander Shur of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Liberal Janet Protasiewicz campaign flush with out-of-state money in Wisconsin Supreme Court race.”

Second Circuit grants rehearing en banc in case challenging Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in women’s athletics: You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

My earlier coverage of the original unanimous three-judge panel’s decision affirming the dismissal of the challenge can be accessed here.

“Inside the University of Pennsylvania’s Precedent-Setting Effort To Revoke Tenure From Its Most Controversial Professor: The school says it’s protecting students; Critics say it’s destroying academic freedom.” Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon has this report.

“Study: The Supreme Court Is Even More Elitist Than You Thought; Applicants who attended Harvard, Yale, or Princeton are much more likely to get Supreme Court clerkships than those who didn’t.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Two decisions Down and Sixty to Go”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Leaked document shows big changes could be underway at GOP-majority NC Supreme Court; Days after Republicans flipped the NC Supreme Court majority, the court started discussing new rules that critics now call a power grab, according to a document obtained by WRAL; The apparent effort comes as the new GOP court has also voted to revisit recent decisions in voting rights cases that favored progressive groups”: Will Doran of WRAL has this report.

“The Wisconsin Judicial Commission has dismissed a complaint against Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article that begins, “A state judicial oversight panel has tossed a complaint against liberal-leaning Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky filed in 2021 over her questioning of attorneys representing former President Donald Trump in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of Wisconsin’s presidential election.”

“Alito, Kagan Top Justices in Supreme Court Recusal ‘Black Box'”: John Crawley and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“14. Section 230, Big Tech, and the Court; Justice Thomas has pushed the Court to consider whether social media platforms have too much power; Neither of the two complex cases the Justices are set to hear next week truly raise that question.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained; The law is very explicit that Biden’s student debt relief program is lawful; The Court’s Republican majority is unlikely to care”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Republican Leaders Might Not Be Trying to Kill Social Security and Medicare. But Their Judges Are. Far-right judges are crafting a theory that would empower courts to strike down trillions of dollars in federal spending.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Originalist Case for Terrorizing Women”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“The Balkinization 20th Anniversary Symposium on the Present State of Constitutional Theory — Collected Posts”: I found many of these posts quite interesting, and you can access links to them all via this post at the “Balkinization” blog.