“25. Judicial Independence vs. Judicial Accountability; The debate over whether individual Justices have behaved appropriately in specific cases underscores why it’s so important for the Supreme Court as an institution to be more accountable.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Mandatory Retirement? Cognitive Assessments? Probe Into Judge’s Fitness Spurs Debate Over Life Tenure; Pauline Newman’s case also addresses the difficulty of telling older judges when they have lost more than a step.” Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Justice O’Connor created the framework and the heart of the language for Chief Justice Rehnquist’s concurring opinion in Bush v. Gore”: Derek Muller has this post at the “Election Law Blog.”

“Ethics, Shmethics”: You can access this week’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“From The Classroom To The Courtroom: An Interview With Neal Katyal; A law professor turned Supreme Court advocate, the former Acting Solicitor General has argued more SCOTUS cases than any other minority lawyer.” You can access today’s new episode of David Lat’s “Original Jurisdiction” podcast via this link.

“US appeals court halts midnight filings over lawyers’ objections”: Andrew Goudsward of Reuters has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court on Tuesday adopted a proposal that would require most legal briefs and other court documents to be submitted by 5 p.m. on the day they are due, putting an end to the practice of lawyers and paralegals working until midnight to complete filings.”

“He took a $500 leaf blower but Ohio Supreme Court says it wasn’t burglary”: Laura A. Bischoff of The Columbus Dispatch has this report.

And Dan Trevas of Court News Ohio reports that “Burglary Conviction Vacated for Man Who Strolled Into Open Garage to Steal Leaf Blower.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Ohio at this link.

“Sheldon Whitehouse vs. the Supreme Court: One witness dismantles the Senator’s plan to control the Justices.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Supreme Court’s Ethics Issues Are Not All Created Equal; But it’s the justices’ own fault that they’re all lumped together”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The justices’ ethics are to blame for the court’s legitimacy problems”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Once-private SCOTUS files reveal how the justices were concerned about not appearing political in Clinton v. Jones case”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.