“‘A Culture of Disdain’: The Supreme Court’s Actions Speak Louder Than Its Words.” Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Ford Foundation’s New Leader Says She’ll Work to Protect Democracy; Heather K. Gerken, the dean of the law school, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice”: Alan Blinder of The New York Times has this report.

“Buoyed by the Supreme Court, Trump to press forward on firings and social agenda”: Jeff Mason, Daniel Wiessner, and Nate Raymond of Reuters have this report.

“Why Now? The Timing of the Universal Injunction Ruling.” William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

And at Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has an essay titled “Amy Coney Barrett is Trying to Bait and Switch Americans Out of Their Citizenship; The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to class actions.”

“The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Free Template to Win by Losing”: Law professor Alan Trammell has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Ex-public defender cries foul over long sexual harassment probe by Fourth Circuit; Caryn Strickland challenged the Fourth Circuit’s employment dispute resolution process which she claims violates anti-discrimination standards established by the Civil Rights Act”: Sydney Haulenbeek of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, consisting of judges sitting by designation from the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits, at this link.

“Confusing abortion bans hurt patients. But there’s a cost to making them clearer. What the debate over ‘clarification’ laws reveals about America three years out from Roe.” Rachel Cohen Booth of Vox has this report.

“SCOTUS Asks US Solicitor General for Brief on Monsanto’s Roundup”: Amanda Bronstad of Law.com has this report.

“Interview with Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu of The Supreme Court of California, US”: Law Times Korea has published this interview (via “Southern California Appellate News“).