“Bryan Gould confirmed to N.H. Supreme Court; New Hampshire’s Attorney General John Formella was also cleared to serve a second term during Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting”: Amanda Gokee of The Boston Globe has this report.

“Luigi Mangione’s Fans Make a Courthouse Scene; The crowd seems silly and kooky until you remember they’re there to celebrate an assassination”: Faith Bottum will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Justice Sotomayor discusses her new book in Philadelphia, how her mother impacted her work on the Supreme Court; The first Latina Supreme Court justice spoke with WHYY’s Cherri Gregg and answered fan-submitted questions throughout the event”: Cory Sharber of WHYY has this report.

“Will the Supreme Court treat Trump’s tariffs like Biden’s policies? During the Biden administration, the Supreme Court clamped down on attempts to make major policy moves without authorization from Congress. Could Trump’s tariffs meet the same fate?” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“GOP activists are working to unseat 3 on Pa. Supreme Court. What happens if they succeed?” Bethany Rodgers of The Erie Times-News has this report.

“Book Review: The Simple Stories of Amy Coney Barrett; The Court’s most junior conservative justice apparently believes her audience consists entirely of rubes who do not have access to the internet.” G.S. Hans has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“How We the People Lost Control of Our Lives, and How We Can Get It Back”: Jill Lepore has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“The Strange Attack on Rebecca Taibleson; The Trump judicial nominee for the Seventh Circuit acquits herself well, as conservative critics undermine their case”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Ken Starr Lecture Series presents U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh”: McLennan Community College has posted this video on YouTube.

“‘Color-Blind’ Conservatism Has Some Holes in Its Logic; The GOP says it’s wrong to use race in college admissions, hiring decisions or voting rights; What makes ICE enforcement different?” Ronald Brownstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Introducing the Third Edition of ‘The Heritage Guide to the Constitution’”: The Heritage Foundation has posted this video on YouTube. The second panel included three federal appellate judges.

In today’s mail: I received a copy of law professor Justin Driver’s new book, “The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education.”

“Presidents Can’t Sue Their Way Out of Criticism; The government has no business trying to regulate speech about itself — and that includes Donald Trump”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Also online at Bloomberg Opinion, Timothy L. O’Brien has an essay titled “Trump’s $15 Billion NY Times Suit Also Has a Serious Intent; The president wants to tear down another vital institution while unwinding legal protections for the media.”

“The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García; The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution”: Cristian Farias has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Former US Judges Defend Judicial Independence as Threats Rise”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access the letter at this link.

“Trump Judge Pick Who Drew Conservative Pushback Defends Herself”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can view the video of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for judicial nominees via this link.

“Don’t ‘criminalize free speech,’ Justice Sotomayor says after Bondi hate speech vow; Sotomayor also said Americans need to know the difference between a president and a king”: Maureen Groppe and Dan Morrison of USA Today have this report.

Larry Neumeister of The Associated Press reports that “Sotomayor urges better civic education so people know difference between presidents and kings.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters has a report headlined “As Trump exerts power, US Supreme Court’s Sotomayor raises specter of a ‘king.’”

Mike Vilensky of Bloomberg Law reports that “Sotomayor Laments Lawyers Who Want to ‘Criminalize Free Speech.’”

Lawrence Hurley of NBC News reports that “Justice Sotomayor questions if Americans know the difference between presidents and kings; The liberal justice was speaking about the importance of civics education at a conference in New York.”

John Fritze of CNN reports that “Justice Sotomayor concerned Americans cannot distinguish between presidents and kings.”

And Erica Orden of Politico reports that “Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi; The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over ‘hate speech.’”

Forbes Breaking News has posted on YouTube a video titled “Sonia Sotomayor Speaks At New York Law School’s Constitution and Citizen Day Summit Panel.”

“Donna Adelson seeks new trial in Dan Markel murder, cites juror ‘misconduct,’ bias”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

You can access the motion at this link.