“The Unnecessary Major Questions Doctrine; When it comes to restraining executive agencies, traditional interpretive canons could do nearly as well as the MQD without departing from originalism”: Mike Rappaport has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Georgia-Pacific’s ‘Texas two-step’ pits state AGs against U.S. Chamber”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“Judicial Nomination Process Leads to a Supreme Court of Nobodies”: Philip Allen Lacovara has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“Biden administration asks US Supreme Court to block ‘ghost gun’ ruling”: Andrew Chung and John Kruzel of Reuters have this report.

And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Feds ask Supreme Court to reinstate ghost gun regulations; The Biden administration’s effort to combat gun violence hit a snag when a Texas court blocked new regulations aimed at reining in ghost guns.”

“With latest batch of judicial nominees, Biden has put forward 180 people for the federal bench”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Biden nominates 2 US Navy Reserve officers to federal appeals courts.”

Andrew Bahl of The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that “Joe Biden taps Kansas federal public defender, military judge for appeals court seat.”

And Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal reports that “Biden Nominates Public Defender to Long Vacant 10th Circuit Seat; The president also names a magistrate judge for a seat on the Seventh Circuit.”

The White House today issued a news release titled “President Biden Names Thirty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees.”

“Should Hotel Chains Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking? For decades, franchised hotels have been a common scene of sex-trafficking crimes in the U.S.; A new legal strategy is targeting the corporations that collect royalties from them.” Bernice Yeung has this report online at The New Yorker.

“Supreme Court Clears the Way for Pipeline as Appeal Moves Forward; A congressional measure on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, championed by Senator Joe Manchin and added to legislation to raise the debt limit, was intended to thwart legal challenges to the project”: Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times have this report.

Robert Barnes and Rachel Weiner of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court clears the way for pipeline construction favored by Manchin.”

And David Harrison of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Allows Work on Mountain Valley Pipeline to Resume; Opponents had sought to block completion of long-stalled project.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“How Supreme Court Justices Make Millions From Book Deals: The deals have become highly lucrative for the justices, including for those who used court staff members to help research and promote their books.” Steve Eder, Abbie VanSickle, and Elizabeth A. Harris of The New York Times have this report.