“What Exactly Did Justice Alito Say That Was Wrong?” Law professor Marc O. DeGirolami has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in three argued cases.

1. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, No. 23-235. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a concurring opinion. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. Justice Clarence Thomas announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part III in Vidal v. Elster, No. 22-704. Justice Kavanaugh issued an opinion, in which Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. joined, concurring in part. Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued an opinion, in which Justice Elena Kagan joined in full and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined in part, concurring in part. And Justice Sotomayor issued an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Justices Kagan and Jackson joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

3. And Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, No. 23-367. Justice Jackson issued an opinion concurring in part, dissenting in part, and concurring in the judgment. You can access the oral argument via this link.

“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.

“Convictions of Biden’s Son and Trump Put the Justice System on Trial; But despite the partisan roar, two juries appeared to seriously weigh the evidence and deliver verdicts; The system seemed to work as it is supposed to”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“The Secret Supreme Court Tapes: A political activist infiltrated a gala to try provoking Justice Alito and his wife.” This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“9th Circuit says California ban on gun sales on state property is constitutional”: Kevin Rector of The Los Angeles Times has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Secret recording puts spotlight on Alito’s strong conservative views on religious issues; The justice has consistently backed religious Christian groups in Supreme Court cases and has often spoke about freedom of religion being under attack”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader Christian Movement; Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many conservatives have openly embraced the view that American democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview”: Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer of The New York Times have this news analysis.

“The People Who Dismantled Affirmative Action Have a New Strategy to Crush Racial Justice”: David H. Gans has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Also online at Slate, law professor Hila Keren has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Hollow Promise of One of the Supreme Court’s Worst 2023 Decisions Has Just Been Exposed.”

“Sam Alito, Who Does Things People Don’t Like, Still Unsure Why People Don’t Like Him; The justice remains very upset by journalists who report accurately on the things the Supreme Court is doing with its power”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Alito No Longer Tries to Hide His Theocratic Worldview”: Columnist Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Alito is right about today’s politics; America is in the middle of a nonmilitary civil war, and one side will win”: Columnist Perry Bacon Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“In Taped Remarks at Supreme Court Gala, Revealing Glimpses of Roberts and Alito; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., once close allies, have embraced starkly different conceptions of the judicial role”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Hunter Biden’s case for appeal: Gun law is unconstitutional.” Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.

“Justice Alito’s Wife, in Secretly Recorded Conversation, Complains About Pride Flag; In a conversation with a woman posing as a conservative supporter, Martha-Ann Alito appeared to push back against having to look at a symbol of L.G.B.T.Q. rights”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Supreme Court’s Greater Revision Tranparency Gets Little Notice; Court permanently notes changes to revised opinions; Revisions ranged from typos to substantive changes”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end; Conspiracy theories, falsehoods and threats of violence against DOJ personnel are not normal”: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“D.C. Circuit’s David Tatel Pairs Judging, Blindness in Memoir; Retired D.C. Circuit judge discusses legal career, blindness in memoir; New book also criticizes current Supreme Court”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“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.