“Meet the judge with outsize influence over Biden’s environment and energy agenda; Republicans are suing EPA, DOE and other agencies in a federal court in Louisiana where a Trump-appointed judge hears nearly all civil cases”: Sean Reilly of Greenwire has this report.

“John Roberts Lost the Thread; The conservative justices are writing opinions for conservative activists and basically no one else”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Foreign hackers could target election litigation, federal judge warns; The judge, who heads a committee on information technology for the federal courts, urged his colleagues to be vigilant”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“A Supremely Bad Idea: The proposed ‘ethics code’ for the justices is a misguided solution to a nonexistent problem.” James Burnham has this essay online at City Journal.

“Filibusters and Cloture: And why the Senate majority can’t force a talking filibuster.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“The Supreme Court Wants to Keep You In the Dark; Occasional leaks from the Supreme Court are the only insights the public gets into how the least accountable branch of government makes its choices”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Attorney conflicts, delays — seeking justice for Dan Markel continues; Donna Adelson’s lawyer Dan Rashbaum withdraws due to ‘severe’ conflict, causing painful (but promising) trial delay”: Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has this report.

“The Supreme Court Gets a Defense: A leading member of the appellate bar speaks up for the institution against political attacks.” This editorial appeared in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, which has also posted online the prepared text of Kannon Shanmugam‘s remarks at Duke Law School.

In other news, if you want to put some proper distance between you and Kannon, don’t repair to London.