“Hunter Biden Is Expected to Appeal Conviction on Gun Charges; Lawyers for Mr. Biden are considering a number of challenges to the guilty verdict, including one based on the Second Amendment”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this report.

“Senate Republicans Block Supreme Court Ethics Measure Pushed by Democrats; Democrats made what they knew was a doomed attempt as they faced pressure from the left to do more to try to hold the court accountable”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“How the Supreme Court could help Hunter Biden appeal his conviction”: John Fritze and Devan Cole of CNN have this report.

“Samuel Alito, caught on tape, reinforces why people are skeptical of the Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Explosive cases flow to US Supreme Court from ‘bold’ regional court”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

“Clarence Thomas raised him ‘as a son’; Now he’s facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges”: Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert of Business Insider has this report.

“Supreme Court has a lot of work to do and little time to do it with a sizable case backlog”: Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press have this report.

“The Federalist Society Is Surrendering the Conservative Legal Movement to Donald Trump; FedSoc co-founder Steven Calabresi’s embrace of the stolen-election lie demonstrates that if you are a conservative in 2024, you can be a critic of Donald Trump, or you can be relevant; But you cannot be both”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Fifth Circuit Judge Moving States, But No Plans to Retire; Leslie Southwick moving chambers from Mississippi to Texas; No circuit approval needed to change court locations”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Secret Audio of Alito Isn’t the Smoking Gun Liberals Think; The recordings of the Supreme Court justice, his wife, and Chief Justice John Roberts don’t tell us anything we didn’t already know”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.