“Catholic charter school proposal greenlighted for Oklahoma state sanctioning, taxpayer funding”: Andrea Eger of The Tulsa World has this report.

And Sarah Mervosh of The New York Times reports that “Oklahoma Approves First Religious Charter School in the U.S.; The school will offer online, Roman Catholic instruction funded by taxpayers; Its approval is certain to tee off a legal battle over the separation of church and state.”

“Court: No lawsuit immunity for Michigan official who had rifle during online meeting.” Ed White of The Associated Press recently had this report about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued last week.

Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton‘s dissenting opinion begins, “If you work long enough as a judge, you can expect to see just about everything.”

“With an ode to the First Amendment, a judge rebuffs the war on woke”: Columnist Jennifer Rubin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative. It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve.” Michael Tomasky has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Supreme Court’s conservative majority to decide direction of law on race, elections and religious freedom this month”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

And today’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal contained a segment titled “Amy Howe on Key Supreme Court Decisions in June 2023.”

“The Supreme Court Is Wrong About Andy Warhol”: Professor Richard Meyer has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead. Fellow judges have accused Pauline Newman of misconduct, saying she can no longer do her job even if she’s appointed for life. The country’s oldest active federal judge won’t go.” Rachel Weiner of The Washington Post has this report.

“How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy: Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections; What if it were to become the law of the land?” Andrew Marantz has this Letter from North Carolina article in the June 12, 2023 issue of The New Yorker.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one case.