“Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Conservative Legal Activist Leonard Leo — Part 2”: You can access yesterday’s new episode of the Maine Wire podcast via this link.

“The Supreme Court Inadvertently Instituted Affirmative Action for White Men; The perverse result of the Supreme Court’s decision banning race-based admissions preferences is to give white men a leg up in getting into college”: Law professor Naomi Schoenbaum has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“SEC punts on whether syndicated loans are securities, in closely watched appeal”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“The Supreme Court Has a Clear Intellectual Lightweight”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“U.S. Senate confirms Ohio’s Rachel Bloomekatz as federal circuit judge”: Sabrina Eaton of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

Andrew Goudsward and Jacqueline Thomsen of Reuters report that “US Senate confirms Ohio public interest lawyer to federal appeals court.”

John Crawley of Bloomberg Law reports that “Bloomekatz Confirmed to Sixth Circuit as Senate Clearing Backlog.”

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-to-48 to confirm Rachel Bloomekatz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

“Six Months Into the Unexpected Democratic Senate — Assessing the Landscape of Judicial Vacancies”: Harsh Voruganti recently had this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”