“Justices to Hear Case on South Carolina’s Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood; The issue in the case is whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue under a law that lets them choose care from any provider qualified to perform the required services”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court to hear South Carolina’s bid to block funding for Planned Parenthood; The Supreme Court will review South Carolina’s decision to cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics because the care they offer includes abortion.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Can Planned Parenthood be stripped of Medicaid funding? Supreme Court to weigh in; The Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court’s decision that Medicaid patients have the right to choose their health care provider.”

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court to weigh Medicaid dollars going to abortion providers.”

“Supreme Court Fast-Tracks TikTok Case in Face of Jan. 19 Deadline; The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a deadline to sell or be shut down”: Adam Liptak and Sapna Maheshwari of The New York Times have this report.

Ann E. Marimow and Eva Dou of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court to hear challenge to banning TikTok in U.S.; The justices will quickly take up the constitutionality of a federal law that would shutter TikTok next month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.”

Andrea Chang and David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times report that “Supreme Court to hear TikTok case before ban deadline.”

Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court to Consider TikTok Ban; Justices to hear oral arguments next month, days before ban is supposed to take effect.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court to decide if law that could force a U.S. ban on TikTok violates First Amendment; President-elect Donald Trump has promised to save TikTok; It is unclear how that would happen.”

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court takes up TikTok challenge over law banning Chinese-owned platform.”

“The Postal Service Says It Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills — For Now; In a statement to NOTUS, the USPS left the door open for guidance around the Comstock Act to change, but it plans to ‘continue to act consistent’ with a DOJ memo until then”: Oriana González of NOTUS has this report.

“Federal judge broke ethics rules by criticizing Justice Alito over flag flying, report finds”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law reports that “Judge Apologizes for Criticizing Alito’s Ethics Over Flags; Senior judge was found to have committed misconduct; Wrote essay calling justice’s flag-flying ‘improper.’”

You can view the op-ed at this link. And you can access the decision on the judicial complaint at this link.

“Aide-de-camp”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“The Changing Face of Supreme Court Oral Arguments [Deep Dive #2]; How ‘hot’ is the bench? Here are some data driven answers.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Legalytics” Substack site.