“Barrow wages legal battle to campaign for court post on pledge to ‘protect’ abortion; Facing possible sanctions for pledging to ‘protect’ abortion rights, former U.S. Rep. John Barrow is challenging the state’s Judicial Code of Conduct as he seeks a seat on Georgia’s top court”: Greg Bluestein of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Conservative Judges Won’t Hire Columbia Law Clerks Over Protests; Judges label university ‘incubator of bigotry’; Students call to divest from pro-Israel companies”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan of Reuters report that “Conservative US judges boycott Columbia grads over campus Gaza protests.”

You can view the letter at this link.

“The New York Times and The Washington Post Win 3 Pulitzers Each; The prize for public service went to ProPublica for coverage of the Supreme Court; The Pulitzer board also issued a special citation for journalists covering the Middle East”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report.

“A death-row prisoner won a new trial. Now, the Louisiana Supreme Court may change its mind.” John Simerman of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

“The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington; The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Supreme Court’s Republican bias hangs over the Trump immunity case; The conservative justices must navigate a crisis moment of their own making”: Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Blockbuster cases abound as Supreme Court enters opinion season; The justices have a lot of news to make before running off to summer recess”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Former Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer: ‘Are you kidding? You’ll get more cases than ever!’; The American lawyer on the problem of overturning of Roe vs Wade, the ‘psychological difficulty’ of retirement — and what ‘Macbeth’ tells us about Washington.” Stefania Palma of Financial Times has this “Lunch with the FT” report.

“Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“Six months out: The dangers to — and from — the courts in a second Trump administration; If Trump does win, even the best-case scenarios are very bad — for Democrats and the left, certainly, but also for democracy.” Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student; Malak Afaneh attempted to deliver a pro-Palestinian speech at an invitation-only dinner when professor Catherine Fisk tried to grab her microphone”: Alicia Victoria Lozano of NBC News has this report.

“How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick; Part one of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Judicial Notice (05.05.24): Not Above The Law; A bad day for a DA, Columbia sued over antisemitism, the debut of A&O Shearman, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.