“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.