“Supreme Court appears skeptical of allowing Trump to implement birthright citizenship plan; The court is considering whether to allow the proposal to go into effect at least in some parts of the country while litigation continues in lower courts”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Supreme Court Understands the Assignment on Birthright Citizenship; The justices appear to recognize that judges need tools to stop President Trump’s unlawful executive orders”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Larry L. Turner, celebrated Philadelphia attorney and education advocate, has died at 65; He was inspired to pursue a legal career by former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and TV attorney Perry Mason.;’I saw myself as a cross between the two,’ he said”: Gary Miles of The Philadelphia Inquirer has written this obituary.

“Trump Solicitor General Hedges on Always Following Court Orders; Circuit precedent isn’t binding ‘necessarily in every case’; Executive doesn’t have to follow unlawful court orders, several officials have said”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Justice David Souter Was the Antithesis of the Present; His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“The 20th Century’s Timeless Values: Growing up in the postwar years, I learned to prize education, civil rights and the rule of law.” Stephen Breyer has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court grapples with nationwide orders blocking birthright citizenship ban; The Supreme Court appeared divided about whether to scale back nationwide orders that have blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

And Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times report that “Trump’s birthright citizenship order strains Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case”: C-SPAN has posted this video on YouTube.

“In Birthright Citizenship Case, Supreme Court Examines the Power of District Judges; The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether federal judges can block Trump administration policy across the country”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

On today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court to hear arguments on birthright citizenship.”

And online at Politico Magazine, you can access an item titled “‘A Moral, Ethical, Legal, Constitutional Travesty’: As the Supreme Court considers a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship, two legal scholars debate whether lower court judges should be able to stop him.”