“Ghost Guns Are Making the Gun Violence Crisis Worse. Will the Supreme Court Care? Are guns really ‘guns’ if you have to spend a few minutes assembling them in your home? Soon, Sam Alito will get to decide!” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Stephen Vladeck Replies to Judge Reed O’Connor on Forum Selection and Judge-Shopping”: This post appears today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“How would a second Trump presidency change America’s courts? There’s a real risk Trump would fill the courts with MAGA nihilists.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“‘A flamingo in a flock of finches’: Judge blasts 9th Circuit rule on when dicta is binding.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post about an en banc decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Trump Judges Are High-Performing ‘Mavericks,’ New Study Claims”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.