“U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House; Federal judges had appointed Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York after the Trump administration’s nominee was found to be serving unlawfully”: Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times has this report.

“What I Suffered Being ‘Transgender’; I’m suing the people who did this to me, and the Texas Supreme Court heard my case this week”: Soren Aldaco will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Murdaugh Takes Appeal of Murder Convictions to South Carolina’s Top Court; The appeal by Alex Murdaugh, once a well-connected member of a prominent family law firm, seeks to overturn his conviction in the murders of his wife and son”: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Chris Hippensteel of The New York Times have this report.

And Valerie Bauerlein of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Murdaugh’s Double-Murder Case Appeal Reunites Devoted Courtroom Coterie; True-crime fans, authors and legal minds reconvene in South Carolina to see whether Alex Murdaugh would be granted a retrial.”

News 19 WLTX has posted on YouTube a video titled “Full hearing: Alex Murdaugh appeal at the South Carolina Supreme Court.”

“Team USA’s Newest Olympic Star Is a Personal-Injury Attorney in His 50s; Curler Rich Ruohonen could become the oldest American athlete in Winter Olympics history; All he needs is for someone to slip and fall”: Ben Cohen and Jared Diamond of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“The Situation: Grand Juries in Savage Times; They really are an important civil liberties protection.” Benjamin Wittes has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“A Law Firm Chair Resigned After Epstein Revelations. Here’s the Reality. Brad Karp stepped down as chair of Paul, Weiss — but it was a soft landing.” Ankush Khardori has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Fourth Circuit revives mass shooting victims’ suit over gun marketing; The victims seek to hold firearm industry members accountable for advertising they claim targets the kind of impressionable young men who commit the majority of mass shootings”: Joe Dodson of Courthouse News Service has this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein takes stand at his criminal tax trial”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

And Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law reports that “Tom Goldstein Claims Overpayment of 2016 Taxes in Fraud Trial.”

Update: In other coverage, Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman of The National Law Journal has an article headlined “‘Risk Everything’: Tom Goldstein Denies Tax Fraud Charges in Jury Trial Testimony; ‘I would build up debts, but I would always pay them,’ appellate attorney Tom Goldstein said as a witness testifying in his own defense at his white-collar criminal jury trial in Maryland federal court; He has pleaded not guilty to all counts and denied tax-evasion allegations in his live testimony.”

And Connor Richards of PokerNews has an article headlined “‘All On the Line’: Tom Goldstein Testifies About Poker in Tax Trial.”

“Justice Antonin Scalia’s Legacy: 10 Years Later | Day 1”: American Enterprise Institute has posted this video on YouTube.

And Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law reports that “Minnesota Judge Jokes He’s Been Branded ‘Progressive Activist.’”

“Federal judge acknowledges ‘abusive workplace’ in court order”: Carrie Johnson of NPR has this report.

And Seth Stern and Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law report that “US District Judge Acknowledges ‘Abusive Workplace’ in Chambers.”

You can access the memorandum and order of the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

Access online the prosecution’s response in opposition to Thomas C. Goldstein’s motion for judgment of acquittal: At this link. Update: You can view the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal at this link.

You can also access online Goldstein’s motion in limine regarding his testimony.

“Paul Weiss’ Progressive Culture Fell Victim to the Vampire Rule”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions”: Law professor Justin Driver has this essay in the current issue of California Law Review.