“In the Gun Law Fights of 2023, a Need for Experts on the Weapons of 1791; A Supreme Court decision has forced courts to consider what gun restrictions existed two centuries ago, sending demand soaring for historians”: Shawn Hubler of The New York Times has this report.

“Font Wars Spread After State Department Replaces Times New Roman With Calibri; ‘I’m banging my head against the wall’; camps divided in fallout from government efforts to make documents easier to read”: Katie Deighton will have this front page article in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump Judge Kyle Duncan got exactly what he wanted out of Stanford: Fame.” Jay Willis has this essay online at The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Judge speaks on studying law; Judge Kyle Duncan of 5th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals spoke to Hillsdale Federalist Society”: Last Thursday, Adriana Azarian of The Hillsdale Collegian had an article that begins, “Law is one of the best ways to promote a return to America’s founding principles of justice and limited government, according to Judge Kyle Duncan of the 5th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals.”

“Hating Everyone Everywhere All At Once At Stanford: Don’t Expect Free Speech Disputes To Have Heroes.” Ken White has this interesting post at his Substack site, “The Popehat Report.”

“NC Supreme Court hears a new round of arguments in partisan gerrymandering case”: Avi Bajpai and Danielle Battaglia of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina have this report.

And Will Doran of WRAL News reports that “NC Supreme Court re-hears arguments in controversial redistricting case; Republicans gerrymandered the state’s political maps so much that it violated the constitutional guarantee of free elections, the NC Supreme Court ruled last year; But the court has since shifted from Democratic to Republican control, and that case is getting a do-over.”

The Supreme Court of North Carolina has posted the video of today’s oral argument on YouTube at this link.

“Ted Cruz rips Stanford for ‘trying to train Antifa’ after students heckle conservative judge; Texas Republican rips treatment of Judge Kyle Duncan on his podcast ‘Verdict with Ted Cruz'”: Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times has this report. You can access the podcast episode via this link.

And online at The Daily Signal, GianCarlo Canaparo has an essay titled “That Tantrum at Stanford Law School and What to Do About It.”

“Lessons from The Trump Years for SCOTUS: Understanding the FedSoc’s SCOTUS takeover and why the rest of us have a rule of law problem.” You can access the current episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick via this link.

“Federal Judiciary Seeks New Judgeship Positions”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today. If I understand the proposal correctly, if approved, the Ninth Circuit would expand to 31 active judges from its current authorized total of 29.

“This Judge Handcuffed a Child for No Reason. There Will Be No Real Consequences.” Law professor Steven Lubet recently had this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever; And it arrives at the Supreme Court at an absolutely horrible time”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Beauty Pageants Have First Amendment Right to Limit Contestants to ‘Natural Born Females’: No Rehearing En Banc; The Ninth Circuit has just decided not to rehear this case, so the panel opinion remains the law.” Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about an order denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“7 Updates On Judge Kyle Duncan And Stanford Law; Here’s a curated yet comprehensive collection of news updates, original documents, and online commentary”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

At The Washington Free Beacon, Aaron Sibarium reports that “Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology; Jenny Martinez becomes the target of student ire for saying ‘I’m sorry’ to besieged judge Kyle Duncan.”

Online at The Recorder, law professor Rory K. Little has an essay titled “Heckling as Principled Civil Disobedience.”

And today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast, featuring Sarah Isgur and David French, is titled “The Stanford Squeeze: Reaching ‘terminal stupidity.’“

“Save us, Supreme Court, from runaway regulation”: Columnist Hugh Hewitt has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Constitutional Law, Constitutional Litigation, and the Truth About Constitutional Text”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Judiciary’s 2022 Annual Report and Statistics Now Available”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today issued this news release, containing links to additional relevant stuff.

“A Trump Judge’s Tantrum at Stanford Law Was Part of a Bigger Plan”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.