“Brett Kavanaugh — Yes, Really — Just Stood Up For the Internet as We Know It: Florida and Texas think they can insist that the First Amendment does not apply to private companies.” Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court Seems Wary of State Laws Regulating Social Media Platforms; The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship, violate the First Amendment; The court’s decision could fundamentally alter the nature of speech on the internet”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski of The Washington Post report that “Justices skeptical of Tex., Fla. laws that bar platforms from deleting content.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court questions whether Texas and Florida can regulate social media to ‘protect’ speech.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Questions State Efforts to Regulate Social-Media Content; Justices weigh Florida, Texas laws that limit platforms’ ability to moderate posts.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court sounds skeptical of controversial laws to regulate social media companies.”

And Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Supreme Court digs into Big Tech censorship and First Amendment.”

“The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

And the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast is titled “A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election: How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy” and features law professor Rick Hasen as a guest.

“68. ‘Original’ Writs of Habeas Corpus: A new opinion by Justice Sotomayor highlights one of the Court’s more obscure powers—and the serious constitutional question that could arise from the justices’ unwillingness to ever use it.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Machine gun or firearm toy? Bump stock creator speaks out ahead of Supreme Court hearing on ban. The fate of the controversial accessory will be decided by the justices.” Devin Dwyer, Patty See, and Bobby Gehlen of ABC News have this report.

“Social media cases head to SCOTUS — but conservatives may have already won; Two major cases deal with GOP laws aiming to force Big Tech to carry all users’ viewpoints”: Rebecca Kern of Politico has this report.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

“The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law”: Columnist Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Texas Is Right. The Tech Giants Need to Be Regulated.” Law professor Tim Wu has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“A Conservative Judge’s Critique of the Supreme Court’s Reliance on Tradition; In remarks at Harvard, Judge Kevin C. Newsom said the justices had strayed from originalism in parts of their blockbuster opinions on abortion and guns”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.