“Feinstein has vowed to return to Washington, but what happens if she doesn’t?” Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu and Seema Mehta have this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Democratic AGs are using the courts to win on abortion, gun control; These state attorneys general are finding successes that eluded them for years”: Scott Wilson of The Washington Post has this report.

“Politico Aims at Gorsuch and Misses; Another ‘ethics’ hit on a conservative justice turns to dust when you dig into the specifics”: Nicholas Tomaino will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Yale Law School Accepted a Donation for Clarence Thomas’s Portrait. Five Years Later, the Painting Is Nowhere To Be Seen.” Eliana Johnson of The Washington Free Beacon has this report.

“Echoes of History in New National Push to Shield Children Online; In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules; Now it’s happening again”: Kashmir Hill and Natasha Singer of The New York Times have this report.

“Judicial Notice (04.29.23): Full Disclosure; SCOTUS controversies persist, two infamous lawyers pass away, a Biglaw firm faces financial challenges, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“6 things to know about the case that will decide the future of abortion in Florida; The six-week abortion ban hinges on Florida Supreme Court’s ruling on current 15-week law”: Romy Ellenbogen of The Tampa Bay Times has this report.

“Why the SC Supreme Court ordered a convicted killer released 16 years early back to prison”: John Monk of The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report.

You can access last Wednesday’s 3-to-2 order of the Supreme Court of South Carolina at this link.

“This Supreme Court is slow to issue rulings — glacially slow; The court has disposed of only 15 cases, with 44 cases yet to be decided before the usual conclusion of the term in June”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Does standing follow the merits? Often. Not always.” Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

“How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Court: The school cultivated ties to justices, with generous pay and unusual perks; In turn, it gained prestige, donations and influence.” Steve Eder and Jo Becker of The New York Times have this report.

“Long Live Formalism: The Fourteenth Amendment secured The Civil Rights Act against all counterarguments and against future repeal.” Ilan Wurman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“A new Senate bill would curb Trump’s worst judges; There is a solution to America’s Matthew Kacsmaryk problem”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Alito Says He Has ‘Pretty Good Idea’ Who Leaked Abortion Ruling; In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages, the justice rejected the theory that the leak had come from the right”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“LeRoy Carhart, abortion doctor whose battles reached Supreme Court, dies at 81”: Brian Murphy of The Washington Post has this report.

“At the Supreme Court, our code of conduct is . . . don’t worry about it”: Columnist Alexandra Petri has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Why Supreme Court ‘ethics’ legislation would do more harm than good”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“What happens to Moore v. Harper after the latest North Carolina Supreme Court decision in the partisan gerrymandering case?” Derek Muller has this post at the “Election Law Blog.”

“North Carolina Gerrymander Ruling Reflects Politicization of Judiciary Nationally; When it had a Democratic majority last year, the North Carolina Supreme Court voided the state’s legislative and congressional maps as illegal gerrymanders; Now the court has a Republican majority, and says the opposite”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

Patrick Marley and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post report that “N.C. Supreme Court reverses redistricting ruling in a win for Republicans.”

Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal reports that “North Carolina’s Highest Court Reverses Course on Voting Decisions; Court with new Republican majority rejects gerrymandering challenge, allows voter-ID law, bars voting rights for some felons.”

Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina report that “NC Supreme Court reverses its past rulings on major voting rights cases.”

And Travis Fain of WRAL reports that “NC Supreme Court says judges can’t stop partisan gerrymandering; The decision opens the door for the legislature’s GOP majority to draw districts that help lock in power at the statehouse, and contribute to Republican power in Congress; The state’s high court also decided two long-running voting cases Friday, including one on voter ID.”

You can access here and here today’s two rulings of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

“Justice Samuel Alito: ‘This Made Us Targets of Assassination’; The author of the Dobbs abortion ruling answers attacks on the court’s ‘legitimacy’; He says he thinks he knows who leaked the draft and is certain about the motive.” James Taranto and David B. Rivkin Jr. will have this new installment of The Weekend Interview in tomorrow’s issue of The Wall Street Journal.

“Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show”: Mattathias Schwartz of Insider has this report.

“Disney v. DeSantis, Trump v. Hawaii, and Citizens United v. FEC”: Michael C. Dorf has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Revealed: Senate investigation into Brett Kavanaugh assault claims contained serious omissions; The 2018 investigation into the then supreme court nominee claimed there was ‘no evidence’ behind claims of sexual assault.” Stephanie Kirchgaessner of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Can Texas Really Put the Ten Commandments in Public Schools? By overturning 50 years of precedent on the separation of church and state, the Supreme Court has opened the door to a flood of religious legislation.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The 150-year-old chastity law that may be the next big fight over abortion”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.

“Conservative dissenters block abortion limits in Nebraska, South Carolina”: Brittany Shammas, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Rachel Roubein, and Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post have this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Current Crisis Recalls the Scandal That Engulfed Gorsuch’s Own Mother; One would think that Anne Gorsuch Burford’s son would understand why the system is set up this way”: Dennis Aftergut has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Senate Democrats Demand Answers From John Roberts Amid Supreme Court Ethics Controversy; The letter comes after the chief justice refused to appear to testify as Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch come under fire for disclosure lapses”: Paul Blumenthal of HuffPost has this report.

You can view the letter at this link.

“‘Inside baseball’: Critics say academia has ‘troubling’ influence with the Supreme Court; Law schools are vying for access to Supreme Court justices, say critics.” Lucien Bruggeman of ABC News has this report.

“McConnell Praises Supreme Court’s Ethics Amid Outcry Over Clarence Thomas Trips; Democrats have called for justices to follow a code of conduct; McConnell slammed attempts to ‘smear and defame’ some justices”: Laura Litvan of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Justice Thomas Acted Properly and Was Not Required to Disclose His Trips; This latest effort by the Left is not about ethics, but about destroying the Supreme Court now that there is an originalist majority”: Mark Paoletta has this essay online at National Review.

“State Attorneys General Lose Bid to Revive Facebook Antitrust Case; An appeals court ruled against a bipartisan coalition of states that sued Meta Platforms”: Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And Leah Nylen of Bloomberg News reports that “Meta Antitrust Case Dismissal Upheld by Appeals Court; 48 states, territories sued over Instagram, WhatsApp deals; Appeals court upholds finding that states waited too long.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“The Supreme Court Has Made Its Bribery Scandal Inevitable; The Court’s disclosure rules make it hilariously easy to buy access to a justice; Relatedly, the Court insists this is nothing for anyone to be concerned about”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“An Elite Boutique Makes A Notable New Hire; Another leading litigator trades Biglaw for the boutique world”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Ex-US appeals judge says Supreme Court needs stronger ethics code”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Reuters has a report that begins, “Former U.S. appeals court judge and prominent conservative J. Michael Luttig on Wednesday said he believes U.S. Supreme Court justices should ‘be bound by higher standards of conduct’ than lower-ranked federal judges, adding to calls for tighter high court ethics rules.”