“Supreme Court to Start Slow Next Term After Monumental Finale; Justices to hear six cases to kick off 2023 term; High court’s caseload trending downward”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Text and ‘Context'”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“How Clarence Thomas Came to Reject Affirmative Action; The Supreme Court justice has long been among the most ardent critics of the policy”: Abbie VanSickle was the guest on today’s episode of “The Daily” podcast from The New York Times.

“Social Media Restrictions on Biden Officials Are Paused in Appeal; A Fifth Circuit panel temporarily lifted a judge’s order that had blocked the administration from contacting platforms about most of their content”: David McCabe and Steve Lohr of The New York Times have this report.

“As public digests Supreme Court ruling, LGBTQ protections draw fire; Just two weeks after the high court limited public accommodation laws, ripple effects are already being felt across the nation”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Trump Seeks Court Order to Quash Investigation in Georgia; Lawyers for the former president asked the state’s highest court to throw out the work of a special grand jury that investigated 2020 election interference and recommended indictments”: Danny Hakim of The New York Times has this report on a court filing submitted yesterday.

“Biden Criticizes Supreme Court Rulings, but Not the Court; President Biden has resisted a full-throated attack on the Supreme Court or the individual justices, despite mounting pressure from activists and from within the Democratic Party”: Michael D. Shear has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Fight over natural gas pipeline lands at Supreme Court; Tensions are ignited over which branch of government has the power to decide the project’s fate”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can view the pipeline company’s emergency application filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells?” Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor (D. Mass.) has this guest essay online at The New York Times.