“Appeals court rejects Trump’s effort to block Pence from testifying in Jan. 6 probe; Trump can still appeal to the Supreme Court but has not indicated whether he will”: Zoë Richards, Laura Jarrett, and Daniel Barnes of NBC News have this report.

And Rachel Weiner of The Washington Post reports that “Trump can’t stop Pence from testifying to Jan. 6 grand jury, court rules.”

“Supreme Court concerned county took too much from woman who owed taxes”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

John Fritze of USA Today has an article headlined “A 94-year-old grandmother lost her home. Should the government have profited from her setback?”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court feels pain of 94-year-old who lost condo to the county, which kept surplus from sale.”

And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court seems to tilt strongly toward grandmother in property rights case.”

“The Supreme Court’s tone-deaf response to the Clarence Thomas corruption scandal; The justices unintentionally make the case for more ethics rules that bind the Supreme Court”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And online at The Boston Globe, columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr has an essay titled “Americans must save the Supreme Court from its justices; A spate of revelations have laid bare the ways deep-pocketed conservative political activists have befriended, wined, dined, and jet-setted the justices in the court’s majority; Still, as calls for judicial ethics reforms mount, Roberts sees everything as fine.”

“Senate panel airs fallout from Supreme Court abortion decision; Democrats describe ‘chaos’ of legal decisions and state laws in the aftermath of last year’s ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade”: Michael Macagnone of Roll Call has this report.

You can view the video of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing via this link.

“What’s Going On with Samuel Alito? The Justice’s objection to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in an abortion-pill case is another catalogue of his resentments.” Amy Davidson Sorkin has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.

“Should We Kick the Sleeping Dog? Reversing the Slaughter-House Cases may just lead to a reenactment of the problem we’re hoping to resolve.” Allen Mendenhall has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Roberts should face reality: The Supreme Court needs a code of conduct.” The Washington Post has published this editorial.

And online at The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus has an essay titled “A terrible silence from the Supreme Court, where ethics have gone awry.”

“Democratic bill would combat ‘judge shopping’ and keep national cases in D.C.” Jacqueline Thomsen of Reuters has this report.

“King Roberts: The chief justice’s latest trick to ward off oversight is the ploy of a royal, not a judge.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting Could Have Destroyed My Family — but Jewish Tradition Rejects the Death Penalty”: Beth Kissileff has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Supreme Court Wary of Windfall in Seizure of Condo for Unpaid Taxes; The justices considered the constitutionality of letting states keep all the proceeds of the sale of confiscated property even when they far exceed the taxpayer’s debt”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

The U.S. Supreme Court has posted online the transcript and the audio of today’s oral argument in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166.

“Supreme Court Flouts Congress and Public Calls for Ethics Code”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“The Supreme Court Is Struggling to Distinguish Fantasy From Reality; A case about stalking has morphed into one about free speech — with potentially dangerous results”: Law professors Evelyn Douek and Genevieve Lakier have this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Uber Drivers Must Arbitrate Pay Suit, Third Circuit Rules”: Khorri Atkinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Daniel Wiessner of Reuters reports that “Uber drivers are not interstate workers exempt from arbitration, US court rules.”

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

“A record medical malpractice verdict goes against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; The $187 million verdict against UPenn Hospital topped a previous record of $100 million, set in 2000”: Harold Brubaker of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

And Aleeza Furman of The Legal Intelligencer reports that “Jury Hits Penn Medicine With Record $182.7M Verdict; The award is Pennsylvania’s largest-ever medical-malpractice verdict, based on VerdictSearch data.”

“Supreme Court seems to favor woman who got $0 in condo sale”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“A Long Day’s Journey into Legal Realism”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“‘Immense And Needless Suffering’: Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Creating A Crisis Of Care; The threat of prison time under Idaho’s near-total abortion ban is forcing providers to leave the state — and pregnant people are paying the price.” Alanna Vagianos of HuffPost has this report.

“Supreme Court weighs ‘home equity theft’ dispute; The court considers whether to allow local governments and sometimes private companies to keep profits when properties are seized for a failure to pay taxes”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

Andrew Chung and John Kruzel of Reuters report that “US Supreme Court mulls legality of a state’s property tax ‘windfall.’”

And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Grandma didn’t pay taxes. Now her house is focus of property rights test case.”

“Senators to Introduce Bipartisan Bill Mandating Code of Ethics for Supreme Court; Angus King and Lisa Murkowski co-sponsor legislation following media reports on two justices’ finances”: Lindsay Wise and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.