“Purposes and consequences: A conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer.” Ibrain Hernández Rangel has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“New Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds upturn in approval of U.S. Supreme Court; Majorities support the Court’s decision that states cannot remove Trump from the ballot and oppose a possible Court ruling that would restrict abortion medication drug mifepristone”: Charles Franklin of the Marquette University Law School has this report.

You can access the detailed poll results via this link.

“DeSantis just lost the judicial firewall he boasted about; Despite appointing five of the seven justices, the Supreme Court bucked the governor”: Gary Fineout of Politico has this report.

“Texas, Biden administration take their battle over new immigration law to federal appeals court; A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether to keep in place a lower court’s block of Senate Bill 4, which makes illegally entering Texas a state crime”: Alejandro Serrano of The Texas Tribune has this report.

You can access the audio of Wednesday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via this link.

“Why Republican federal judges are fighting among themselves; Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“New trial date set for Donna Adelson in murder-for-hire of Dan Markel; Donna Adelson is now expected to stand trial September 17”: Jamiya Coleman of WCTV in Tallahassee, Florida has this report.

“Chief Justice Extols Legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor; In remarks at an award ceremony, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. described his colleague as a trailblazing and civic-minded presence on the Supreme Court”: Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

Korie Dean of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that “Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at Duke to honor ‘pathbreaking figure.’”

Rusty Jacobs of WUNC reports that “SCOTUS Chief Justice avoids hot topics in appearance at Duke.”

And Michael Austin and Jazper Lu of The Duke Chronicle report that “Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at Duke Law ceremony honoring late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.”

PBS NewsHour has posted on YouTube a video titled “Chief Justice John Roberts delivers remarks at Duke Law School.”

“Muslim Circuit Pick’s Firm Defends Him as Key Democrats Oppose; Two colleagues of Adeel Mangi defend him in letters, The Atlantic; Comes as at least three Senate Democrats oppose”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Kennedy discusses guiding principles”: KCRA 3 has posted this video on YouTube.

Update: As several readers have noted, this video (while newly posted on YouTube) is not itself new.

“A Rising Star Of The Supreme Court Bar: Easha Anand; In her first Term arguing before the justices, Anand has three oral arguments — unusual even for seasoned SCOTUS advocates.” You can access today’s new episode of David Lat’s “Original Jurisdiction” podcast via this link.

“The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”: Stephen Breyer has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Was Constitutional Law Teaching Ever Not in Crisis?” Patrick J. Sobkowski has this guest post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Top Democrats won’t join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat; As more liberals urge Sonia Sotomayor to step down this year to ensure that Biden can pick her successor, some Senate Democrats are voicing fears of a 7-2 conservative majority”: Sahil Kapur and Lawrence Hurley of NBC News have this report.

“Tougher Security Measures Are Causing Upset at Guantánamo Prison; An effort to unshackle a detainee during legal meetings has put a spotlight on simmering tensions in the Pentagon’s secretive prison”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“I Hope to Repeal an Arcane Law That Could Be Misused to Ban Abortion Nationwide”: U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Advocacy, labor groups pressure Senate to confirm embattled Third Circuit nominee Mangi; The Pakistani American appointee has faced waves of backlash over his affiliation with a university research program and a criminal justice reform group that has even rattled the confidence of some Senate Democrats”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Will Abortion Make Florida a Swing State? Overruling DeSantis’s six-week restriction is coming to the ballot.” This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump ally files complaint about judge who criticized Trump attacks on judiciary”: Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond of Reuters have this report.

“Oklahoma Supreme Court appears skeptical of argument that St. Isidore would not be a public school”: Murray Evans of The Oklahoman has this report.

And Mark Walsh of Education Week reports that “Oklahoma Supreme Court Weighs ‘Test Case’ Over the Nation’s First Religious Charter School.”

“Man gets 14 months in prison for threat to U.S. Supreme Court’s Roberts”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Garrett West ’18 to Join Yale Law School Faculty”: Yale Law School issued this news release today.

“Anthony M. Kennedy to reflect on his life and his years on the Supreme Court in two-volume memoir”: Hillel Italie of The Associated Press has this report.

“Parties Clash Over Jury Instruction in Hearing on $976M Defective Seatbelt Verdict”: Aleeza Furman of The Legal Intelligencer has this report.

“Conservative US judge says AI could strengthen ‘originalist’ movement”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

Update: The University of Chicago Federalist Society has posted on YouTube a video of the event titled “Judge Bush: History, Tradition, and AI.”

“Florida Supreme Court allows statewide ballot measure on recreational marijuana; The measure requires 60% approval to pass in November, when Democrats hope to make electoral gains in a state where they have struggled for years”: Zoë Richards of NBC News has this report.

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Florida at this link.

“Okla. Supreme Court to weigh nation’s first religious charter school”: Laura Meckler of The Washington Post has this report.

“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.