“Judicial Rhetoric, Artful and Clumsy”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

“A Trump-appointed judge used a vulgar term to attack trans women. His colleagues hit back.” Sara Libby of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

And at “Above the Law,” Joe Patrice has a post titled “‘We Are Better Than This,’ Say Ninth Circuit Judges Despite All Evidence To The Contrary; Total dick writes about ‘swinging dicks’ in trans discrimination case, prompting fellow judges to beg for basic professionalism.”

“Ron DeSantis Wants Speedy Executions, and Lots of Them; After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant; Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times recently had this report.

“VanDyke Uses Crude Phrase in Case Over Spa’s Transgender Policy”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Judge VanDyke: ‘This is a case about swinging dicks.’ 30 members of the Ninth Circuit write to disagree.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denying rehearing en banc, and the opinions and statements accompanying it, at this link.