“The Supreme Court’s lack of accountability is worse than you think”: Law professor Ian Ayres has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Hunter Biden’s Surprising Fan Base: Gun-Rights Activists; Sworn foes of the Bidens are bucking partisan lines, saying the president’s son is being prosecuted under a ‘bogus’ law.” Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“5th Circuit scraps plans to adopt AI rule after lawyers object”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“A scientific controversy at the Supreme Court; We deserve a solid foundation of data to make smart policy decisions”: Katelyn Jetelina and Heidi Moseson have this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court Has Planned for a June So Awful It Will Be Impossible to Keep Up”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court to rule on pivotal abortion cases two years after overturning Roe v. Wade; The justices will decide whether to impose new restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, and whether a federal law requiring emergency room treatment conflicts with a state abortion ban”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Massachusetts middle schooler banned from wearing ‘only two genders’ shirt loses federal appeals case; His attorneys were considering a Supreme Court appeal”: Rick Sobey of The Boston Herald has this report.

And Mark Walsh of Education Week reports that “Court Backs School That Barred Student’s ‘Two Genders’ Shirt; Student barred from wearing ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ T-shirt to middle school loses appeal.”

“In Arizona, Life Sentences for Juveniles Test Supreme Court Precedents; The justices will soon decide whether to hear a case that could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Justice Alito talked about political divide on purported secret recordings; Recorded by a liberal filmmaker, audio of the justice and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, shows how hardball political tactics have landed at the court”: Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report.

Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has an article headlined “In Secret Recordings, Alito Endorses Nation of ‘Godliness’; Roberts Talks of Pluralism; The two justices were surreptitiously recorded at a Supreme Court gala last week by a woman posing as a Catholic conservative.”

Kaelan Deese of Washington Examiner reports that “Alito and Roberts secretly recorded in latest attempt to undermine Supreme Court.”

And in commentary, in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, columnist James Taranto will have an op-ed titled “Justice Alito Stands Falsely Accused of Candor; Rolling Stone tries to make a scandal out of surreptitiously taped anodyne remarks.”

“The Left Wing Attack on Judicial Independence and on Justice Alito; The left has abolished the secret ballot and legalized fraud-friendly mail in voting. now they want to destroy our independent judiciary”: Steven Calabresi recently had this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now; I am begging the justices to learn from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s historic mistake”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Astonishing Lengths Samuel Alito Will Go to Execute Death Row Inmates”: Professor Austin Sarat has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Texas Doubles Down on Life-Threatening Abortion Ban”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

“I’m an Appellate Lawyer in Manhattan. If Trump Appeals His Conviction, He Faces Long Odds.” Roger L. Stavis has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“School Can Ban ‘Two Genders’ Shirt, Appeals Court Says; Twelve-year-old sued after school kept him from wearing shirt; School district claims it was following anti-discrimination law”: Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Still no word, however, on why the decision issued on Sunday.

“What Are You Fond of, Samuel Alito?” Bruce Headlam and Stephen Sherrill have this Shouts & Murmurs item in the June 17, 2024 issue of The New Yorker.

“Supreme Court Connelly Ruling Shows Flaws of Taxpayer’s Argument”: Law professor Brant Hellwig has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in two cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in three cases.