“Senate Judiciary Committee Promises Supreme Court Ethics Hearing; Democrats on the panel wrote to the chief justice, urging an investigation into gifts and travel provided to Justice Clarence Thomas”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“Abortion Pill Ruling May Face Headwinds at the Supreme Court; Even justices hostile to abortion and the administrative state may think twice, legal scholars said, before embracing a Texas judge’s decision”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“The Law and the Abortion Pill Case: Critics of Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling are confusing the legal issues at stake in the mifepristone case.” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“At Stanford Law School, the Dean Takes a Stand for Free Speech. Will It Work? After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom; But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be.” Vimal Patel had this front page article in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Freddie Mac investors’ class certification ‘ploy’ shot down by appeals court”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post about a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued last week.

“The Conservative Legal Movement Is Basically an Elite Social Club; Why the latest Clarence Thomas revelations are shocking, yet unsurprising”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

Also online there, Michael Tomasky has an essay titled “The Democrats Need to Destroy Clarence Thomas’s Reputation; They’ll never successfully impeach him; But so what? Make him a metaphor for every insidious thing the far right has done to this country.”

“Iowa stops paying for rape victims’ morning-after pills and abortions”: William Morris and Michaela Ramm of The Des Moines Register has this report.

“School’s transgender policy trumped teacher’s religious rights, US court rules”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report on a 134-page ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued last Friday.

“Why Conservative Judges Keep Calling Abortion Providers ‘Abortionists’; A brief history of the anti-choice movement’s favorite slur”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Unusual Moves, a Slow Start, and What we Should Expect from the Remainder of the Term”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Hochul Names a New Candidate to Become New York’s Top Judge; Gov. Kathy Hochul’s choice of Rowan D. Wilson, who already serves on the highest court, the Court of Appeals, might soothe left-leaning Democrats who spurned her previous pick”: Luis Ferré-Sadurní of The New York Times has this report.

“Justice Department appeals Texas abortion pill ruling”: Perry Stein, Ann E. Marimow, and Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post have this report.

Update: You can access the federal government’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, via this link. And the intervenor-appellant’s stay request can be accessed here.

“Mifepristone, Mega Yachts, and Maskgate”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“Drug Company Leaders Condemn Ruling Invalidating F.D.A. Approval of Abortion Pill; More than 250 executives said that the decision ignored both scientific and legal precedent and, if it stands, would create uncertainty for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries”: Christina Jewett of The New York Times has this report.

In commentary, online at The New York Times, Joshua M. Sharfstein has a guest essay titled “I Worked at the F.D.A.; The Abortion Pill Decision Is Dangerous.”

And also online at The New York Times, law professor Kate Shaw has a guess essay titled “The Abortion Pill Ruling Is Bad Law, and the Biden Administration Should Fight It.”

“Judge Kacsmaryk’s Tortured Readings”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Judicial Notice (04.08.23): Flying Justice Thomas; A Biglaw partner turned Trump defender, a Paul Hastings slide deck gone viral, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“22. The Mifepristone Mess: In Dobbs, the Court claimed that it was returning abortion access to the states; After Friday’s dueling mifepristone rulings, the Justices may have to revisit that promise as early as this week.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Mifepristone and the rule of law, part II: The district court’s decision is wrong; It must be reversed.” Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

“Supreme Court justices are allowed to have friends”: Law professor Scott Douglas Gerber has this essay online at The Hill.