“Trump’s Crown Doesn’t Fit”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Botched Gaetz Nomination Shows Limits of Trump’s Hold Over GOP; Republican lawmakers generally agree with president-elect’s ambition to reshape federal bureaucracy but sometimes balk at his wishes”: Aaron Zitner and Natalie Andrews of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Live From The Dispatch Summit: Judge James Ho.” You can access this recent episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link.

“Some thoughts on the Ho-Thapar debate on federal judicial clerkship boycotts”: Derek T. Muller has this post at his “Excess of Democracy” blog.

“Supreme Court drops review of Meta, shareholder brawl over data breach disclosures; Only weeks after hearing oral arguments, the high court let a lower court ruling favoring shareholders stand”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access today’s per curiam decision of the U.S. Supreme Court dismissing review as having been improvidently granted at this link.

“False Federalist Society Denials About Supporting Nominees for Public Office and Why It Matters”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Conservative activist Leonard Leo’s expectations for Trump’s judicial appointments”: This audio segment appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Progressives Angered by Judge Deal Leaving Out Circuit Picks; Democrats agree to ditch circuits for more district court votes; Senate deal shows Democratic weakness, progressives say”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Trump’s chance to fill 2 appeals court seats hinges on judges’ retirement plans.”

Brandon Kingdollar of NC Newsline reports that “Fourth Circuit nominee Ryan Park to not receive vote under reported Senate deal.”

And in commentary, online at Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has a post titled “What’s the Deal With the ‘Deal’ that Senate Democrats Made on Judicial Nominations? The good news is that Senate Democrats get to confirm some nominees the easy way; The bad news is that Senate Democrats won’t be fighting for more of them.”

“Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Interpretation”: Law professors Andrew Coan and Harry Surden have posted this article at SSRN.