“Julie Vargas sworn in as new Supreme Court chief justice; Vargas served on state Court of Appeals before joining the high court”: Olivier Uyttebrouck of The Albuquerque Journal has this report.

“Supreme Court Secrecy Includes Reasons for Recusal; Justices often don’t disclose why they disqualify themselves from hearing cases; Their silence echoes the court’s unexplained emergency orders”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor urges women to lead with passion”: Williesha Morris of Alabama Media Group has this report.

Aysha Bagchi of USA Today reports that “Sotomayor says she has civil relationship with ‘virtually all’ justices.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Sotomayor blames colleagues for slew of Supreme Court emergency appeals; ‘We’ve done it to ourselves,’ the justice said during an appearance Thursday.”

“Trump Taps Former Ohio Solicitor General for Sixth Circuit Seat”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Three ways the Supreme Court could upend the midterm elections; Multiple cases before the justices could remake rules on district boundaries, campaign finance and the eligibility of certain mail-in ballots”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this essay online at MS Now.

“Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights; The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations; Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs”: Nicholas Nehamas, Allison McCann, Steven Rich, Jazmine Ulloa, and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times have this report.

“Sonia Sotomayor Profiles Brett Kavanaugh; The Justice says her colleague ‘probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour’”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Planned Parenthood takes Nevada abortion law to state Supreme Court; The reproductive health care service argues that a reinstated 1985 law restricting minors’ access to abortion is vague and unconstitutional”: Alan Riquelmy of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Blanche Fills DOJ Leadership Position in First Post-Bondi Move”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law”: At the “Deeplinks” blog of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mitch Stoltz has this post about a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued Tuesday.

“Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh; Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Sonia Sotomayor to headline 2026 Albritton Lecture at University of Alabama”: WVTM 13 News has posted this video on YouTube.

“Two Moralities of Law: People Miss Them When They’re Gone.” Cass Sunstein has this post at his Substack site.

“Bonus 219: The Demise of the Death Docket; Even as the emergency docket has gotten busier, the Court since OT2020 has largely gotten out of the business of intervening in capital cases — except to un-block executions lower courts had stayed.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Birthright Citizenship Question that Stumped the Solicitor General; It was surprising that the Solicitor General did not appear to have thought much legislative power under Section 5”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Allegiance, Birthright, and Citizenship: The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.” Philip Hamburger has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Inside the battle to be Trump’s next attorney general; Veterans of Trump’s past legal fights are jockeying for the top spot”: Myah Ward, Kyle Cheney, and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

“ABA Eyes First ‘Unqualified’ Judge Pick of Second Trump Term”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.