“As a Texas city debates an abortion travel ban, maternal care is scarce in nearby rural counties; Amid a fight over an ‘abortion travel ban,’ women health care experts say more attention is needed to the plight of pregnant Texans in the Panhandle where there are few hospitals and OBGYNs”: Jayme Lozano Carver of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Statement of Concern Regarding Improper Use of Judicial Offices in Relation to Law Clerk Hiring and Refusal to Hire”: The New York City Bar Association issued this statement today.

“The GOP Has a New Plan to Prevent Voters From Rejecting Their Unpopular Abortion Bans”: Billy Corriher has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Amy Coney Barrett Sounds Fed Up with Clarence Thomas’ Sloppy Originalism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“War Crimes Hearing Gives Public Virtual Look Inside a Secret C.I.A. Prison; Years after the agency’s ‘black site’ program was shut down, details are slowly emerging during trials at Guantánamo Bay”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“Why the $4.5 Billion School E-Rate Program Is Headed to the Supreme Court; The high court declined to take a different case related to a school resource officer’s use of a Taser on a student with a disability”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“During Watergate, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Can it do the same in Trump’s case?” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“85. Opinion Announcements (and Why They Should Be Live-Streamed); Justice Sotomayor’s oral dissent in the bump stocks case highlights why the Supreme Court should allow those who can’t be in the courtroom to hear the justices’ hand-down statements.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Mifepristone Stays on the Market”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

And last Friday’s bonus episode of the podcast was titled “The Textualist Case for Mass Shootings.”

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in four cases.