“More abortion ballot measures are set to pass. Then state courts will have their say. Arizona is one of several states where right-leaning groups are backing conservative judges as they prepare to challenge newly passed ballot measures protecting abortion.” Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly of Politico have this report.

“Can ire over abortion ban finally put a Democrat on the Texas Supreme Court? Three Republican incumbents are being targeted for their role in recent abortion rulings by a new Democratic political action committee.” Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“The Supreme Court Has Grown Too Powerful. Congress Must Intervene.” Law professors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Life’s Work: An Interview with Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Alison Beard has this interview in the November–December 2024 issue of Harvard Business Review.

“US Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Three UVA Clinic Cases”: Mike Fox of UVA Today has this report.

“What Jack Smith Gets Wrong About Immunity: The special prosecutor focuses on then-President Trump’s motives — a critical legal error.” David B. Rivkin Jr. and law professor Elizabeth Price Foley will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“San Francisco vs. the Biden EPA: The city of good liberals asks the Supreme Court for regulatory relief.” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“‘Unusual’: Supreme Court term lacks religious liberty dispute, court watchers note.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Is Criminal Abolition Unconstitutional?” Guha Krishnamurthi has this guest post at the “Dorf on Law” blog.

“Lilly Ledbetter, Whose Fight for Equal Pay Changed U.S. Law, Dies at 86; Her lawsuit against Goodyear helped pave the way for the 2009 Fair Pay Act, which was signed into law by former President Barack Obama”: The New York Times has published this obituary written by Trip Gabriel and Claire Moses.

“Judge in sprawling hair relaxer case limits fees for lead lawyers”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

Therein, Frankel writes that “the judge balked at lead counsel’s request that she order other plaintiffs lawyers to pay common benefit fees from settlements they reach outside of the MDL. Rowland concluded that she does not have authority over cases that are litigated in state court or over potential cases that settle before a formal complaint is filed.”

“Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen faces long odds in reviving claim against former boss; The Supreme Court will consider whether to take up Cohen’s appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials retaliated against him by putting him in solitary confinement”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Trump Loyalists Push for a Combative Slate of New Judges; Ascendant faction of Trump allies wants bolder brand of conservatism”: Jess Bravin and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Using Network Analysis to Gauge the Justices’ Relative Importance in Oral Arguments”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“This could have been a year of a federal court reckoning for Trump. Judges had other ideas.” Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press have this report.

“The ‘Frankenstein Veto’ Is a Power No Governor Should Have; The Wisconsin governor’s attempt to secure school funding for the next 400 years has called attention to the undemocratic loophole”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Third Circuit warms to gun ownership by nonviolent felons; Bryan Range argues his 1995 conviction for making a false statement to obtain $2,458 in food stamps shouldn’t prevent him from owning a gun”: Jackson Healy of Courthouse News Service has this report on an en banc oral argument (access the audio at this link) that occurred last week before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Abortion ballot question is a test of voters’ social conscience”: George Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.

“103. Alien Enemies in the Supreme Court: Setting the record straight on the 1798 statute former President Trump claims he’ll use to summarily arrest and deport undocumented immigrants — and the Supreme Court’s handful of interactions with it.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“27 Years On Death Row: Richard Glossip’s case shines a light on the gross inadequacies of American justice, will the Supreme Court look away?” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“‘Ghost Guns’ are Guns (Duh)”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link or on YouTube.