“I was a member of Biden’s commission on the Supreme Court. His proposals are only a start. The president can do more to rein in the court.” Nancy Gertner has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“AZ Supreme Court justice recuses in abortion ballot measure lawsuit where his wife is a defendant”: Gloria Rebecca Gomez of AZ Mirror has this report.

“Schumer Promises Year-End Judicial Push as Courts Gain New Political Importance; Pushing for an overhaul of the Supreme Court is a new priority as Democrats try to match Trump-era judicial confirmations, the Senate majority leader says”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

Sahil Kapur of NBC News reports that “Schumer vows Supreme Court reform will be ‘a very big priority’ if Democrats win election; In an interview with NBC News, Schumer tore into a ‘derelict’ Chief Justice John Roberts for enabling an ethical and substantive ‘morass’ that he said is forcing Congress to intervene.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg; Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.”

“New Republican Senator Pushes Terrible Appellate Pick; George Allen’s blunder on Roger Gregory”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Abortion care remains available in Utah after state Supreme Court ruling — for now; Abortion is legal up to 18 weeks while the state awaits a lower court’s ruling on Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s lawsuit alleging that a near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional”: Emily Anderson Stern of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

Hanna Seariac of The Deseret News reports that “Utah Supreme Court continues to block state law banning elective abortions.”

David W. Chen and Anna Betts of The New York Times report that “Utah Supreme Court Upholds a Block on a Strict Abortion Ban; Utah cannot enforce its near-total ban on abortion while a challenge to the law proceeds in the courts, the State Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.”

And Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post reports that “Utah abortion ban remains on hold after ruling by state’s high court; The 4-1 decision Thursday keeps abortion legal in the state up to 18 weeks of pregnancy.”

You can access today’s 4-to-1 ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link.

“NIH ban on animal testing comments violates speech rules, court says; D.C. appeals court rules that using keyword filters unfairly hid comments from animal rights activists”: Tom Jackman of The Washington Post has this report on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued Tuesday.

“Progressives’ abortion fearmongering turns, ridiculously, to Comstock; Today, the Comstock Act is a travesty and an irrelevance, not a fresh terror endangering abortion rights”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.