“Misplaying the Race Card: A look back at Ed Carnes’s Eleventh Circuit nomination.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Illegitimate Attacks on the Court’s Legitimacy; The most common left-wing attacks on the Supreme Court are based on politics, not law”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The Company They Keep”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“At odds over email and abortion rulings, Arkansas Supreme Court justices seek chief justice post; Both candidates claim the mantles of transparency and conservative”: Sonny Albarado of Arkansas Advocate has this report.

“How To Reform Law Schools: Boycott Law Clerks Or Divest Funding? Judges Ho and Thapar favor different approaches.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justice Jeffrey Funke chosen as Nebraska’s next chief justice after Justice Heavican retires; Funke’s elevation leaves another vacancy for first-term Gov. Jim Pillen to fill in the coming months”: Zach Wendling of Nebraska Examiner has this report.

“How the Country’s Understanding of Abortion Could Change if Trump Wins; Activists on both sides say Trump could effectively ban abortion nationwide and establish fetal personhood, the longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement”: Kate Zernike of The New York Times has this report.

“Mississippi’s Absentee Ballot Measure Violates Federal Law, Appeals Court Rules; The law requires officials to count absentee ballots received by mail up to five days after Election Day; It appears unlikely that the ruling will affect the current election”: Isabelle Taft of The New York Times has this report.

Patrick Marley of The Washington Post reports that “Court rules ballots that arrive late shouldn’t be counted despite postmarks; The 5th Circuit’s ruling in a Mississippi case could have implications for other states with similar laws.”

And Tierney Sneed of CNN reports that “Trump-appointed appeals court judges say Mississippi is violating federal law with mail ballot deadline but don’t block it.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Supreme Court rejects suspension for Scranton attorney”: James Halpin of The Citizens’ Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has an article that begins, “The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has rejected an effort to suspend a Scranton-based attorney for 90 days based on an attorneys’ fee petition he filed in a civil lawsuit, finding there was no attempt at deception when he sought an award of over $1.1 million in fees, costs and interest.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

“All NH Supreme Court justices recuse themselves in indicted colleague’s disciplinary case; Lawyers for indicted justice say no crimes were committed”: Tim Callery and Ross Ketschke of WMUR in Manchester, New Hampshire have this report.

“GOP asks Pa. Supreme Court to stay ruling allowing provisional voting in ‘naked ballots’ case”: Peter Hall of Pennsylvania Capital-Star has this report.

And at his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has a post titled “Republicans Plan to Go to U.S. Supreme Court Raising Independent State Legislature Theory to Seek to Block Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Requiring Counting of Certain Provisional Ballots.”