“Rule 59 Motions & the Time to Appeal When There’s No Separate Judgment; The Eleventh Circuit held that a Rule 59 motion doesn’t shorten the appeal clock when the district court doesn’t set out the judgment in a separate document”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“Senate panel hails rare unity on Biden nominee for 5th Circuit judge”: Andrew Goudsward of Reuters has this report.

“Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? America needs to know who Barre Seid is, what kind of country he wants, and just how massive an impact his $1.6 billion gift can have on our political discourse.” Nina Burleigh has this article online at The New Republic.

“Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of F.D.A.’s Approval and Regulation of Abortion Pill; A panel of three judges heard arguments in a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups asking courts to order a widely used drug off the market”: Abbie VanSickle and Pam Belluck of The New York Times have this report.

Ann E. Marimow, Caroline Kitchener, and Perry Stein of The Washington Post report that “Appeals court appears likely to restrict access to key abortion pill; Judges aggressively question lawyers for Justice Dept. and drug company about the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone.”

Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Appeals Court Questions FDA’s Judgment on Abortion Pill; Two-hour hearing marked latest battle over approval and expansion of the drug mifepristone.”

Christine Fernando of USA Today reports that “Appeals court hears arguments in abortion pill case.”

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Federal appeals court says government’s defense of abortion pill ‘puzzling’; 5th Circuit skeptical of FDA’s abortion pill approval.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via this link.

“Trust in Supreme Court fell to lowest point in 50 years after abortion decision, poll shows”: Mark Sherman and Emily Swanson of The Associated Press have this report.

“Supreme Court says Illinois may ban sale of rapid-fire assault weapons for now”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report on an order that the U.S. Supreme Court issued today.

“Supreme Court to Rule on Affirmative Action, Student Debt and Internet Companies’ Liability; Justices are set to issue far-reaching opinions in the coming weeks”: Jess Bravin and Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“The Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less”: Online at The New York Times, law professor Jedediah Britton-Purdy has a guest essay that begins, “The details are all too familiar: Last fall, an election in North Carolina flipped the balance of the State Supreme Court from Democrats to Republicans, and in less than six months, the new conservative majority had reversed a decision from last December and ruled that the legislature can gerrymander election maps with no constitutional limit.”

“Breyer Looks Back on Sexism Faced by Female Harvard Classmates; ‘They were having a tougher time than we thought,’ retired Justice Stephen Breyer said of his female peers at Harvard Law School in the early 1960s”: Jimmy Hoover of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Senate Republicans blast judge during hearing over Clarence Thomas’s 2011 ethics review”: Tobi Raji of The Washington Post has this report.

And Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Federal Judge Says Judicial Body Gave 2011 Complaints About Clarence Thomas Short Shrift; Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing examines how complaints about Thomas gifts, payments to wife were handled internally.”

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

“Interview: Emily Bazelon.” Elise Spenner has this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“A 150-year-old law could help determine the fate of U.S. abortion access; The courts will decide whether the Comstock Act still applies, a question that could be explored at a hearing Wednesday”: Dan Diamond and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report.

“Key legislators see no ‘path forward’ on Lamont court nominee; Sandra Slack Glover, nominated for CT Supreme Court, interrogated over support for Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2017”: Mark Pazniokas of Connecticut Mirror has this report.

“Pa. election results: Carluccio, McCaffery win Supreme Court primary, will advance to November general.” Katie Meyer of Spotlight PA has this report.

“Casting a Bright Light on the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’; A new book by the legal scholar Stephen Vladeck argues that unsigned and unexplained decisions issued through the court’s shadow docket have helped propel its jurisprudence to the right”: Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times has this book review.

“US appeals court to weigh fate of abortion pill”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report.

And Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News reports that “Abortion Pill Ban Gets a Second Chance in Appeals Court; Two Trump-appointed judges are on appeals court panel; Texas judge rescinded FDA approval of drug in April ruling.”

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is scheduled to hear oral argument of this appeal beginning at 1 p.m. central time today. The audio of the oral argument will be live-streamed via this link.