“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.

“ProPublica Recycles Old Clarence Thomas News; The site accuses the justice of legal violations — but he was officially cleared more than a decade ago”: Mark Paoletta has this op-ed online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered: Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.” Linda Greenhouse has this review of Martin J. Siegel‘s new book, “Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs,” in the June 22, 2023 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Two Black Members of Native Tribes Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian. A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack ‘Indian blood.'” Chris Cameron and Mark Walker of The New York Times have this report.

“The Intrigue Behind How Stephen Breyer Became A Federal Judge; Ted Kennedy blocks Jimmy Carter from nominating a Puerto Rican woman to First Circuit”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“The least significant cases of the decade: A scientific analysis.” Adam Unikowsky recently had this post at his “Adam’s Legal Newsletter” Substack site.

“Jackson defends ‘the right to strike’ in her first big dissent; For those wanting to understand Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson better in her role on the Supreme Court, her solo dissent in Thursday’s labor law decision is ‘a feature, not a bug'”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“The Supreme Court Has Earned a Little Contempt”: Law professor Josh Chafetz has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down two state abortion bans”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Oklahoma issued yesterday.

And in commentary, online at Slate, law professor Mary Ziegler has a Jurisprudence essay titled “Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shows Path Forward in Deep Red States.”

“Ohio Supreme Court says abortion rights amendment does not require split proposal”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a report that begins, “The Ohio Supreme Court declined a request Thursday from two anti-abortion activists to require that the Ohio Ballot Board divide the abortion rights constitutional amendment into two or more separate proposals, which would make it harder to pass at the ballot box.”

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

“Texas man urges Supreme Court to stay out of major Second Amendment case”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. You can access the defendant’s brief in opposition at this link.

“The Bar’s Role in Responding to Attacks on the Court”: Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin M. Flowers has this essay online at the Per Curiam site of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

“Federal Law and Choice-of-Law Reform”: John Parry has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.”

“There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.