“Don’t Overlook the Power of the Civil Cases Against Donald Trump”: David Lat and Zachary B. Shemtob have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Trump posts $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case; The bond, reduced from the $464 million judgment that was originally due on March 25, prevents the seizure of Trump’s assets while the case is on appeal”: Adam Reiss and Zoë Richards of NBC News have this report.

“Governor announces six finalists for two Minnesota Supreme Court seats; By midsummer, Walz is replacing retiring justices G. Barry Anderson and Margaret Chutich”: Rochelle Olson of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report.

“US Judge Shopping Curb Thwarted as Texas Court Resists; Northern District of Texas has come under scrutiny over judge shopping; Judiciary urged courts to change case assignment rules”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Florida’s Supreme Court clears the way for abortion ballot measure that could protect the procedure”: Savannah Kuchar of USA Today has this report.

James Call of The Tallahassee Democrat reports that “Florida Supreme Court signs off on abortion rights amendment for November ballot.”

Jacob Ogles of Florida Politics reports that “Florida Supreme Court rules abortion rights will appear on Florida’s ballot; Floridians Protecting Freedom gathered petitions to put the constitutional amendment on the ballot.”

And Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra of The 19th report that “Florida Supreme Court approves abortion restriction — and ballot measure that would overturn it; The court paved the way for a six-week ban passed in 2023 to take effect.”

You can access today’s rulings of the Supreme Court of Florida in these two cases here and here.

“My mother was just confirmed as a circuit Judge. It’s wrong that Adeel Mangi may not be.” Mattan Berner-Kadish has this essay online at The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.

Online at The Atlantic, Gregory L. Diskant has an essay titled “The Real Adeel Mangi Is Nothing Like the Caricature GOP Senators Have Invented; I’ve known him for 25 years and he deserves to be confirmed to the federal bench.”

Online at MSNBC, Dean Obeidallah has an essay titled “Three Democrats are blocking a win Biden desperately needs; Not confirming Adeel Mangi as the first Muslim American in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit could add to angst in the Muslim American community.”

And online at CNN, Khizr Khan has an essay titled “The attacks against this judicial nominee are un-American.”

“Charting the Justices Decisions Cutting Across Ideological Lines”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“For the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court; She’s been described as the ‘conscience of the supreme court’; That’s why it pains me to write this”: Mehdi Hasan has this essay online at The Guardian.

“Supreme Court rejects case from fired worker denied jobless benefits after refusing vaccine; Minnesota said the worker’s objections to the COVID-19 vaccine were based less on religion and more on her belief that it didn’t work; The worker argued her body is a ‘temple of the Holy Spirit’”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“What we have learned about the Supreme Court’s right-wingers”: Columnist Jennifer Rubin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row? The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear an appeal in her case, which, as one judge put it, ‘focused from start to finish on Ms. Andrew’s sex life.’” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Absurd Fiction of the Mifepristone Case”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

And the new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast is titled “What the Abortion Pill Case Is Really About.”

“74. ‘What If No One Has Standing?’ Justice Alito’s concern during the mifepristone argument that courts might not be able to hear challenges to every unlawful federal government action rings more than a little hollow.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Christine Blasey Ford is no hero, if justice is the measure”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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