“Judicial Notice (04.01.23): Bragging Rights; Justice Gorsuch’s principled dissent, Davis Polk’s domination of dealmaking, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Arguments in abortion lawsuit at the center of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race begin in May”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Patrick Marley of The Washington Post reports that “Expensive court race will decide future of abortion in Wisconsin; Voters will decide Tuesday if conservative or liberal judges control the Wisconsin Supreme Court ahead of decisions on abortion and redistricting.”

And Jess Bidgood of The Boston Globe reports that “Wisconsin court mega-fight crashes to an end, with a Trump coda.”

“Supreme court justices felt tricked by Trump at Kavanaugh swearing-in — book; CNN analyst Joan Biskupic cites unnamed justices saying a White House celebration of Trump’s pick turned overtly political”: Martin Pengelly of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

I was on the road, away from my office, all last week, and while I was away, my advance copy of Biskupic’s new book — “Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences” — arrived there. I am very much looking forward to reading it. The book’s official on-sale date is Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

“Court-Hopping: Should More Appellate Judges Visit District Courts? Federal appellate judges Timothy Tymkovich and Jennifer Elrod talk about the reasons they volunteer to visit district courts.” Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

In the current issue of Judicature magazine, law professor Marin K. Levy has a related article titled “Visiting Judges: Riding Circuit and Beyond.”

“This Law Professor Took on Nixon and Trump. Now He’s Facing Off Against Stanford Law School Students. John Banzhaf says he plans to file a bar complaint against the students who disrupted Fifth Circuit judge Kyle Duncan.” Aaron Sibarium of The Washington Free Beacon has this report.

“Federal judges say they won’t hire clerks from ‘intolerant’ Stanford Law School”: Jesse O’Neill of The New York Post has this report.

And James Gordon of The Daily Mail (UK) has an article headlined “Federal judges announce they will refuse to hire clerks from Stanford Law School after woke students and diversity dean ambushed conservative member of the bench: ‘They terrorize people into submission and self-censorship.’“

“The Dangerous Journey of John Eastman: How a mild-mannered law professor became the architect of a scheme to overturn a presidential election.” Garrett Epps has this article in the upcoming issue of Washington Monthly magazine.