“Conservatives Are Getting Comfortable Talking Openly About a National Abortion Ban”: Law professors Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Next Attack on Medication Abortion Just Has to Be a Little Less Stupid; When conservative activists control the federal bench, bad people who make worse arguments are going to win more often than they might otherwise expect”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“The Anti-Abortion Endgame That Erin Hawley Admitted to the Supreme Court”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Also online at Slate, Dara Kass has a Jurisprudence essay titled “Erin Hawley Wants ER Doctors Like Me to Do What, Now?“

“How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk; Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy; Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world”: Steve Eder and Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times have this report.

“Eastman disciplinary case probably not going to the California Supreme Court just yet”: David Ettinger has this post at the “At the Lectern” blog.

“Muslim Lawyers Recoil at GOP Attacks on Historic Appellate Pick; Conservatives say Adeel Mangi is ally of terrorists, cop killers; Muslim lawyers closely watching nominee’s treatment”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Transgender Lieutenant’s Pronoun Bias Case Revived by 11th Cir.; Case tests pronoun misuse as grounds for hostile work claim; Co-workers repeatedly called transgender officer ‘ma’am’”: Khorri Atkinson of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“FDA Abortion Pill Stance Endangers Patients, Undermines Doctors”: Kristen Waggoner has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“Latest Democratic Opposition Jolts Muslim Judicial Nomination; Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) won’t back Adeel Mangi for Third Circuit; Aggressive conservative campaign aims at historic nominee”: Zach C. Cohen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Monica Alba and Sahil Kapur of NBC News report that “White House ramps up defense of embattled Muslim American judicial nominee; Biden’s top aides are pushing the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi to be a U.S. appeals court judge as Sen. Jacky Rosen becomes the third Democrat to oppose him.”

And in commentary, online at The Philadelphia Inquirer, former Third Circuit judge Timothy K. Lewis has an essay titled “Adeel Mangi should be the first Muslim federal appellate judge — if Islamophobia doesn’t interfere; I was nominated for the same federal judgeship as Mangi, and I was treated much better, despite my being only the 16th person of color in that role; This is anti-Muslim bias, plain and simple.”

“UVA Law Professor Discusses Judicial Deference at Harvard Law School’s Annual Scalia Lecture”: Kelly A. Olmos and Ava H. Rem of The Harvard Crimson have this report.

Harvard Law School has posted on YouTube a video titled “2024 Scalia Lecture | Aditya Bamzai, ‘Statutory Interpretation and the Separation of Powers.’“