“Would Trump’s Justices Approve His Recess Appointments? Probably not — and Roberts, Thomas and Alito already expressed disapproval in the 2014 Noel Canning case.” Law professor Jed Rubenfeld has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“A Tribute to Gene Meyer”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Court appears unlikely to spare former Fox News reporter in contempt fight; The case could become the first big showdown over press freedom during Donald Trump’s second term”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Pa. Supreme Court again rules that Philly and other counties cannot count undated mail ballots; The ruling comes after several Philly-area counties defied the court’s previous guidance; The issue has come under close scrutiny as the race between Bob Casey and Dave McCormick undergoes a recount”: Sean Collins Walsh of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

Today’s decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of a per curiam order, two concurring statements (here and here), and a dissenting statement.

“Trump’s Parade of Clowns, Idiots, and Creeps”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“The Senate Will Absolutely Confirm Matt Gaetz; If you think these Republicans are going to stand up to Donald Trump, you have not been paying attention”: Dahlia Lithwick has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Mass Tort Lawyers Trapped in Cycle of Debt as Cases Drag On; Mass tort firms refinance loans as they await settlements; Funders see ‘fallow period’ in big-ticket lawsuit pipeline”: Emily R. Siegel of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Matt Gaetz And the Clown Car Crash Into the Justice Department; Justice and free speech are getting crushed in the name of ‘justice’ and ‘free speech’”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

“Texas Supreme Court removes temporary block to Robert Roberson’s execution; The state’s highest civil court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but suggested there’s still time for Roberson to testify before a Texas House panel”: Pooja Salhotra and Terri Langford of The Texas Tribune have this report.

You can access last Friday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas at this link.

In the November 25, 2024 issue of The New Yorker: Jennifer Gonnerman has an Annals of Law article headlined “An Investigation Into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries; One of the notes on potential jurors read, ‘I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,’ then added, ‘Must Kick, too Risky.’”

In the Talk of the Town section, David Remnick has a Comment titled “Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders; The President-elect’s nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet; But it is a trolling beyond mischief.”

Adam Gopnik has an A Critic at Large essay titled “What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest? From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified; Now they’re a field of study.”

And Margaret Talbot has a Books essay titled “The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.; Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches; Their ensuing rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.”

“109. Things Fall Apart: Some reflections on my disheartening exchange with Judge Jones at last Thursday’s Federalist Society convention — and its ominous implications for the future of legal debate.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

And at his “The SDFLA Blog,” David Oscar Markus has a post titled “Federalist Society meeting goes off the rails.”