“What Would Have Been Justice Scalia’s Legacy If He Survived Into The Trump Presidency? Richard Re poses thought provoking questions about a Scalia counterfactual on Earth 2.0.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Bonus 217: The Day the Supreme Court Wasn’t Supreme; In 1944, Congress enacted a statute effectively giving a specific Second Circuit panel the ‘final and conclusive’ power to resolve a landmark antitrust case — because the Supreme Court lacked a quorum.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“J. Harvie Wilkinson III ’72, This Year’s ‘Outstanding Virginian,’ Reflects on a Life of Service; Appellate Judge of More Than 40 Years Says He’s Still ‘Learning Something New Every Day’”: Cooper Allen of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.