“Justice Clarence Thomas laments ‘very dicey’ threats to judiciary and heightened security for Supreme Court”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

“Northshore Judge Billy Burris wins open La. Supreme Court seat; Election decided by GOP party primary in which Democrats could not participate”: Julie O’Donoghue of Louisiana Illuminator has this report.

“The court-packing comeback: Kamala Harris wants to destroy the one branch of government that is working as it should.” The Washington Post has published this editorial.

“At Supreme Court, Virginia Democrats Pressed Legal Theory Embraced by Trump; A long-shot emergency request to restore a voting map was the latest salvo in an all-out legal war over control of the House”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“AI won’t replace lawyers. It will create more of them. The legal profession is changing, but the lawyer is here to stay.” Damien Charlotin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Judicial Notice (05.17.26): Unexpected Departures; John Quinn steps down from Quinn Emanuel leadership, Justice Wecht resigns from the Democratic Party, and Biglaw leaders leave their firms for Latham.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Trump Administration Weighs $1.7 Billion Fund for Allies Investigated Under Biden; Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers”: Glenn Thrush, Andrew Duehren, and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“West Virginia Federal Trial Judge Appointed by Ford Dies at 100”: Olivia Alafriz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia issued a news release titled “Passing of United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr.“

“Return of the Abortion Pill Wars; Mifepristone is back at the Supreme Court; Democrats need to make the stakes clear”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Trump DOJ Lawyer Correctly Describes Congress’s History of Circumcising Presidential Power; During oral argument in the cases about Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms, a Justice Department lawyer brought up a very different form of severability”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Democrats Battle to Politicize the Georgia Supreme Court; Stacey Abrams seizes an opportunity to make her state more like Wisconsin”: Columnist Jack Butler will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Newsom’s Delay on Filling California High Court Seat: Explained.” Quinn Wilson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling”: Jennifer Sinco Kelleher of The Associated Press has this report.

And online at The Atlantic, Michael Scherer has an article headlined “Hawaii vs. Citizens United: State lawmakers want to change the terms of personhood for corporations.”

“In the US South, an appeals court leans farther right than the Supreme Court”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.