“A Diminished Justice Dept. Braces for Fresh Fights After Midterm Loss; The upheaval points to a broader dilemma spurred by the election: whether the department can carry out President Trump’s priorities as career officials eye the exits and senior department officials resign.” Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“Making Up for Lost Time on Judges; Trump’s second-term nomination pace hasn’t measured up to the first”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Legal ‘Nuclear Option’ That Threatens to Upend the Baseball Lockout; MLB is preparing for the possibility that the players move to dissolve their union and file an antitrust lawsuit, a complex legal strategy with potentially significant ramifications”: Jared Diamond of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“White House faces unusual obstacle on confirming Trump judges: other Republicans.” Seung Min Kim of The Associated Press has this report.

And at his “Nomination Notes” Substack site, Patrick McNeil has a post titled “Republicans scramble to push through Trump’s extreme judicial nominees; Some Republicans are complicating things; Meanwhile, Democrats warn that GOP norm-breaking could come back to haunt them.”

“How a Misquote by a Supreme Court Justice Imperils Gun Restrictions”: Mike McIntire and Eli Murray of The New York Times have this report.

“The President Nominates Circuit Judges, Not Senators; Circuit seats belong to the circuit, and not to the state”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Judge Richard A. Posner Has Died. His Influence in Law Was Beyond Compare. He was the most-cited legal scholar of the latter half of the 20th century and an unapologetic iconoclast, favoring pragmatism over judicial tradition. He was 87.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has written this obituary.

Paul W. Valentine of The Washington Post has written an obituary headlined “Richard Posner, influential and iconoclastic federal judge, dies at 87; He served nearly 36 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago and was ranked by many as second in influence only to members of the Supreme Court.”

Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal has written an obituary headlined “Judge, Economist Richard Posner Dies at 87; Jurist wrote thousands of opinions as well as scholarly articles, more than 50 books.”

And Becky Beaupre Gillespie of the University of Chicago Law School reports that “Law School Mourns the Passing of Richard A. Posner, Senior Lecturer, Law and Economics Pioneer, and Former Federal Appellate Judge.”

Judge Posner participated in this blog’s “20 Questions for the Appellate Judge” feature, and you can access his interview published December 1, 2003 at this link.