“Judges Appear Receptive to Blocking Trump’s Orders Targeting Big Law Firms; Perkins Coie and WilmerHale asked two federal judges on Wednesday to permanently put an end to President Trump’s threats to their businesses”: Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

“6 beers, 1 plane: Alaska Supreme Court upholds aircraft forfeiture in bootlegging case.” Patrick Gilchrist of Alaska Public Media has this report.

And James Brooks of Alaska Beacon reports that “Alaska’s seizure of a bootlegger’s plane was legal, Supreme Court says; A decision released Friday says ‘even a six-pack of beer causes grave societal harm.’”

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

“Whitmer selects Court of Appeals Judge Noah Hood to fill vacancy on Michigan Supreme Court”: Arpan Lobo of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

And Craig Mauger of The Detroit News reports that “Gov. Whitmer picks Detroiter for seat on Michigan Supreme Court.”

“One of the Most Complex Cases of the Supreme Court Term Is Also One of the Most Straightforward”: Robyn Nicole Sanders has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Also online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a related Jurisprudence essay titled “How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench.”

“The Supreme Court Has No Army; The judiciary has some tools to enforce presidential compliance, but their effectiveness depends ultimately on the vigilance of the American people”: Law professor Thomas P. Schmidt has this essay online at The Atlantic.

And online at USA Today, columnist Chris Brennan has an essay titled “Supreme Court reminds Trump to follow the law, signaling concern that he won’t; It’s not just the liberal Supreme Court justices; Even the conservatives are starting to worry about President Donald Trump.”

“When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“One thing the modern Supreme Court can agree on is disagreeing over religion”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay; The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost; Terms of the deal were not disclosed”: Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times has this report.

At “SCOTUSblog,” Amy Howe has a post titled “The Future of SCOTUSblog.”

And Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Dispatch, has a post titled “The Dispatch Acquires SCOTUSblog; We aim to become the definitive source for authoritative reporting and analysis of the rule of law.”

According to Hayes’s post, “In the coming weeks, we’ll announce additional talent — including a partnership with Original Jurisdiction founder and legal commentator David Lat — to help us grow SCOTUSblog’s capabilities, and these expanded offerings will be reserved for Dispatch members. We are also planning to develop products in the coming months for both a professional legal audience and the general public, given the increasing importance of understanding the Supreme Court in American life. And premium and lifetime members will be among the first to preview what we’re building.”

In other words, the David Lat/SCOTUSblog partnership that we’ve all been hoping for will soon be a reality, especially if you are a Dispatch member.

“Federal court temporarily blocks NC from taking steps to throw out ballots in Griffin-Riggs lawsuit; Federal courts will allow NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs to pursue her claim that her colleagues on the state’s highest court are violating voters’ constitutional rights by ruling in favor of election claims by Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin”: Will Doran of WRAL has this report.

And Lynn Bonner of NC Newsline reports that “US appeals court pauses NC elections board action in the Supreme Court election case.”