“Joe Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent”: Online at The New York Times, columnist Jamelle Bouie has an essay that begins, “The Supreme Court is caught in a crisis of its own making.”

“Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters; Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assumed direct oversight of the case and effectively put the death penalty back on the table”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

You can view the memorandum of the Secretary of Defense at this link.

“Neil Gorsuch and the Laffer Curve of Law; The justice talks about how ‘good people’ are ‘getting whacked’ by the regulatory state; He says proposals to alter the high court are nothing new”: Kyle Peterson will have this new installment of The Weekend Interview in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Senator Schumer Goes Nuclear With ‘No King Act’; The law would direct lower courts how to reject claims of presidential immunity, and strip SCOTUS of appellate review”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Justices Who Insist They Aren’t Politicians In Robes Keep Acting Like Politicians In Robes; The justices often claim that they do law, not politics; New reporting on the Supreme Court’s most recent term suggests otherwise”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Term limits for the Supreme Court would end our independent judiciary; Biden’s latest ‘reform’ push is just liberal frustration with a court that follows the Constitution”: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Appeals Court Further Narrows Voting Rights Act’s Scope; Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted”: Michael Wines and J. David Goodman of The New York Times have this report.

Patrick Marley and Maegan Vazquez of The Washington Post report that “Court rules against Black and Hispanic voters in redistricting case; For decades, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act allows voting districts that give Black and Hispanic voters the ability to elect candidates of their choice when they have common interests and can form coalitions.”

Tierney Sneed of CNN reports that “Appeals court narrows Voting Rights Act’s scope for redistricting cases in the South.”

Ryan Autullo and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law report that “Fifth Circuit Rejects Minority Coalitions’ Texas Voting Map Suit; Fifth Circuit reverses 1988 decision, loss for minority voters; Dissent says majority ‘dismantled’ Voting Rights Act.”

Dante Motley of The Texas Tribune reports that “Voting Rights Act doesn’t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules; In a lawsuit challenging redistricting in Galveston County, the 5th Circuit said the protections afforded to a single racial group don’t apply to multiple groups who collectively claim voting rights violations.”

Andrew Schneider of Houston Public Media reports that “U.S. 5th Circuit rules for Galveston County in voting rights case, striking down decades of precedent; The federal appeals court ruled 12-5 that different racial and ethnic groups cannot form coalitions to challenge racial gerrymandering under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”

And Kirk McDaniel of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fifth Circuit slaps down vote dilution claims by minority coalition in Galveston redistricting fight; The federal appeals court found that claims of vote dilution must be brought by single minority classes, overturning precedent allowing coalitions of voters to bring claims.”

You can access yesterday’s 12-to-6 en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“How Emphatically is it the Province and Duty of the Judiciary to Say What the Law Is?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“First, Sixth Circuit Nominees Advanced by Senate Panel; Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 for Karla Campbell, Julia Lipez; Campbell criticized for ties to workers group”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.