“The White House is being weird about judicial nominations; An official says two nominees are being ‘actively considered’ even as the Judiciary Committee has already received their paperwork”: Patrick McNeil has this post at his “Nomination Notes” Substack site.

“The Conservative Legal Movement’s Post-Election Crashout Is Here, and It Is Spectacular; ‘The Senate is lost until 2032, so I hope Thomas and Alito got on their treadmills this morning’”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Feds move to dismiss case over 20,000 California ballots after Supreme Court denied appeal”: Kevin Rector and Brittny Mejia of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Prosecutors Vow to Keep Pursuing Death Penalty in California; Unless the next governor, Xavier Becerra, keeps commuting sentences, California’s death row is likely to slowly repopulate in the coming years”: Tim Arango and Laurel Rosenhall of The New York Times have this report.

“A Trump immigration fight progressive groups can get behind; The federal government found itself with unlikely bedfellows as it defended the authority to enforce worker protections for immigrant laborers”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Texas appeals court cancels oral arguments in challenge to state hemp rules; The move clears the way for the three newly elected Democratic justices on the 15th Court of Appeals to hear the cases after they take office”: Zach Leggio of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Time for Supreme Court to fix ‘race neutral’ discrimination; Asian American parents challenge policy designed to reduce their children’s enrollment in gifted programs”: Steven D. Anderson has this essay online at Fox News.

“What This Week’s Elections Mean for The Future of Elections: Democrats had a big night on Tuesday; What about democrats?” Jon Allsop has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“U.S. Attorney Who Oversaw Centerpiece of Trump’s Revenge Campaign Resigns; Jason Reding Quiñones joins what is expected to be a succession of departures at the Justice Department after the midterm elections, including that of the leader of the national security division”: Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush, and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“Republicans rammed through Supreme Court nominees. Now Democrats will have the votes to stop them.” Seung Min Kim, Mary Clare Jalonick, and Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press have this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to teach spring seminar”: Ellie Symons of The Daily Texan has an article that begins, “Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will teach a course at UT’s School of Civic Leadership to 17 UT undergraduate students in spring 2027.”

“Senator-Governor Klobuchar and the Problem of the Received Wisdom”: Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman have this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Texas’ Next Top Justice Wants to Return to ABA Accreditation”: Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

According to the article, “Ellis also wants to withdraw a recent rule change from the high court allowing judges to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief without violating the judicial code of conduct.”

“This Trump move may actually help Democrats in their legal fight against him; The president’s proclivity to claim executive privilege could lead to court rulings that reshape the power of the presidency”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

Judge Merryday on fonts: At this link, via Court Watch.