“GOP appeals date ruling on mail-in ballots to Pa. Supreme Court”: Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this report.

“One urgent reason the justices need a credible ethics code? Ginni Thomas. And you thought she couldn’t do any more to cast disrepute on the Supreme Court.” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Johnson & Johnson Wins Over Longtime Holdout for Talc Settlement; Tort lawyer Allen Smith now backs J&J’s settlement plan after the company raised its offer to roughly $9 billion”: Alexander Gladstone of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And Mike Spector and Dietrich Knauth of Reuters report that “Johnson & Johnson adds $1.1 billion to proposed talc settlement.”

“Searching for the Best Opinions: Text Analyses from the 2023/2024 SCOTUS Term”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Ginni Thomas Is Doing Her Husband’s Dirty Work; New reporting from ProPublica reveals just how intertwined Ginni Thomas’s work is with Clarence Thomas’s ability to go on luxury cruises”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Alaska Judge’s Links to Lawyer Didn’t Require Recusal, US Says; Prosecutor who sent nude photos to judge had ‘minor’ role in case, government says; Brief opposes new trial request”: Suzanne Monyak and Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Donald Trump Is Running Scared From the Supreme Court He Built; The Dobbs decision is still electoral poison for Republicans up and down the ballot”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reflects on ‘groundbreaking’ path to the Supreme Court in new memoir”: John Fritze and Lauren del Valle of CNN have this report.

“I’m a conservative, but we must demand amendment to guarantee reproductive rights”: Jim Young has this essay online at The Oklahoman.

“In Deciding When to Sentence Trump, Judge Faces ‘Impossible’ Task; Justice Juan M. Merchan has tried to treat Donald J. Trump like the hundreds of other defendants whose fates he has decided; But his decision could alter American history”: Ben Protess, Jesse McKinley, and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump’s Federal Election Case to Go Back Before a No-Nonsense Judge; If her record is any guide, Judge Tanya Chutkan will try to keep pretrial proceedings moving along after a lengthy hiatus and the Supreme Court’s decision granting former presidents broad immunity”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

“Months after his release from prison, Jimcy McGirt arrested for failure to register”: Dale Denwalt of The Oklahoman has this report.

“Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: ‘Thank You So, So, So Much.’ In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan ‘treasonous’ for backing a stronger ethics code.” Andy Kroll of ProPublica and Nick Surgey of Documented have this report.

“Texas Political Cases Shift to New GOP-Backed Appeals Court; Republican justices replace Democrats in deciding state cases; Judge hopes rule of law, not politics, will be ‘North Star’”: Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Do you have a 1st Amendment right to tape virtual court hearings? US appeals court ducks question.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post about a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued last week.

“Supreme Court Conservatives Are Less Likely to Explain Recusals; Liberal justices often explain decision to step aside in cases; Court’s 6-3 conservative majority eschews the practice”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and John Crawley of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, ‘Lovely One,’ at Apollo Theater”: Hillel Italie of The Associated Press has this report.

And Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law report that “Ketanji Brown Jackson Starts New Memoir’s Publicity Blitz; 16 in-person events scheduled in four weeks; Book deals comes with big advance.”

“What The Voting Rights Act And Civil Rights Act Mean To Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson”: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has posted this video on YouTube, along with videos titled “‘A Five-Alarm Fire’ — Why Justice Jackson Finds SCOTUS’s Ruling In Trump’s Immunity Case Troubling” and “‘Hard Work Is My Professional Brand’ — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Reads From Her Favorite Poem.”