“The Seashells Case Against Comey at a Crossroads; A judge will soon rule on whether the former F.B.I. director must face trial for an Instagram post”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“Douglass’s Two Constitutions: When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation.” John O. McGinnis has this book review post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Harvard Law Library Book Talk | Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.” Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.

“Samuel Alito’s Tortured Attempts to Explain Himself; In the midst of his will-he-or-won’t-he retirement tour, the justice is at great pains to make his view of originalism make a lick of sense”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

And online at Reason, Damon Root has a post titled “Alito’s ‘Practical Originalism’ Doesn’t Sound Very Originalist; The conservative justice seems to favor the kind of results-oriented judging that originalists are supposed to oppose.”

“The Supreme Court Is Playing With Fire”: You can access today’s new installment of “The Conversation” between Emily Bazelon and David French online at The New York Times.

“Justice Alito Calls Out Empty Reporting From ‘Court Watcher’ Joan Biskupic; Biskupic no longer has any inside information so instead she is forced to make up reporting based on the Justice’s apparent body language”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Hosts US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Judge Allison Jones Rushing, and Judge Andrew Oldham for Armand Arabian Advocacy Tournament”: Pepperdine Newsroom has published this news release.

“Justice Alito explains why he thought Clarence Thomas was ‘scary’”: Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report, along with an article headlined “Justice Alito says ‘very little was done’ about intimidating protests.”

“SUNCOR Gets Complicated”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“‘Time for a Woman’: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign pledge runs into a harsh reality.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Man Who Threatened Supreme Court Justices Avoids Jail Sentence”: Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Ted Cruz Explains How Justice Thomas Goes Further; Senator Ted Cruz’s new biography about Justice Clarence Thomas, Going Further, is a must-read contribution to this third genre of Supreme Court books”: Josh Blackman has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“Bonus 256: The Original ‘First’ Amendment; In 1789, Congress submitted *twelve* amendments to the states; The only one that was never adopted would have (for a time) grown the House in proportion to the growing country; We should revisit it.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Rise of New York’s Most Powerful Judge”: Bloomberg Law has posted this video on YouTube.