“‘Wrong things can be changed’: Justice Sotomayor speaks on disillusionment.” Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Americans remain pessimistic about Supreme Court months after Roe’s demise, poll finds”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“Stanford students violated free speech by shouting down a conservative speaker”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Sacramento Bee.

“Idaho Is About To Become The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion; A bill would create a whole new crime — dubbed ‘abortion trafficking’ — which aims to limit minors’ ability to travel for abortion care without parental consent”: Alanna Vagianos of HuffPost has this report.

“We’re About to Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go to Arm America”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Challenge to Biden ESG investing rule will stay in Texas court”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report on a ruling that U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk (N.D. Tex.). issued yesterday.

And online at Slate, law professor Steve Vladeck has a jurisprudence essay titled “A Federal Judge Couldn’t Handle My Criticism. So He Made Fun of My Tweets.”

“Garland looks to hand off security duty for Supreme Court justices; Sen. Katie Britt unveiled training materials showing that marshals were discouraged from arresting protesters”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

Greetings from Little Rock: Where on Friday I will be speaking at the Corbin Symposium, Arkansas’ premier appellate CLE event.

My flight from Charlotte to Little Rock was delayed for over one hour, but I figured the four-person maintenance team had properly fixed the issue, since Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was on board (sitting in the very last row of coach, surprisingly!), and it wouldn’t be very good marketing for American Airlines if the flight didn’t operate successfully.

“Court Improperly Nixed Unvaccinated Jurors, Pa. Panel Told”: Matthew Santoni of Law360 has this report (subscription required for access) on the oral argument before a three-judge Pa. Superior Court panel in which I participated yesterday in Pittsburgh on behalf of the plaintiff-appellee. The argument that is the subject of the article’s headline was being advanced by counsel for the defendant-appellant.

Programming note: I will be arguing an appeal tomorrow morning on behalf of the plaintiff-appellee in this case before a three-judge Pa. Superior Court panel sitting in Pittsburgh. As a result, additional posts may not appear here until Tuesday evening.

“Israel’s Netanyahu Suspends Judicial Overhaul After Mass Protests; Opposition leaders say they are ready to negotiate, as labor union calls off nationwide strike”: Dov Lieber, Aaron Boxerman, and Shayndi Raice of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

And Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner, and Eric Nagourney of The New York Times report that “Netanyahu Delays Bid to Overhaul Israel’s Judiciary as Protests Rage; The Israeli prime minister called for dialogue as civil unrest and work stoppages reached a crisis point, grinding the country to a halt.”

“Supreme Court won’t review contempt conviction of anti-Chevron environmental lawyer”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court mulls Amgen bid to revive cholesterol drug patents”: John Kruzel and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.

“Supreme Court asked to rule on state law that prohibits therapists from counseling against gender transition; The 9th Circuit upheld the law, which is aimed at banning ‘conversion therapy'”: Brianna Herlihy of Fox News has this report.

You can access the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“Michigan Supreme Court Proposal Would Impose ‘Preferred Pronouns’ in System of Justice”: Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer has this essay online at National Catholic Register about a proposed rule change that Michigan’s highest court has under consideration.

As you might imagine, the rule change proposal has already received numerous public comments, which can be accessed via this link (scroll down) — including a comment from 12 Michigan Court of Appeals Judges.

“Iowa Poll: Over 60% support legal abortion as state Supreme Court considers restrictions.” Katie Akin of The Des Moines Register has this report.

“Kansas Supreme Court skeptical of state bids to restrict abortion; Kansas lawmakers passed a law prohibiting dilation and extraction abortions, and another that slammed abortion clinics with more regulations than other health care providers”: Andrew J. Nelson of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Abortion Wins Elections: The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda.” Rebecca Traister has this cover story in the March 27, 2023 issue of New York magazine.

“‘Racist taint.’ Will the Supreme Court review a Jim Crow-era voting ban targeted at Black Mississippians?” John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“Even Best Friends Sometimes Disagree”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Will Havens Realty Be ‘Abandoned’ Like The Lemon Test? Another Burger Court precedent is on the chopping block.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Judge delivers lecture on free speech at Notre Dame after Stanford shutdown”: Valerie Richardson has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.

“How State Supreme Courts Can Make Up For the Federal Judiciary’s Failures; State supreme courts have a long history of protecting civil rights that reactionary federal judges are happy to ignore”: Kent Hull has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The Difference Between a Bad Joke and Not a Joke”: At his “Dorf on Law” blog, Michael C. Dorf has a post that begins, “Last week’s oral argument in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Prods., LLC was difficult to handicap.”

“Disability rights activist faces Supreme Court showdown over hotel accessibility lawsuits; The justices will decide whether accessibility ‘testers’ can sue over a lack of information on hotel websites when they have no intention of staying at the hotels in question”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Is It Infringement If It’s Funny?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, recorded in Hawaii (we’re not envious of that, are we?), via this link.

“20. ‘Munsingwear Vacaturs’: A dissent from Justice Jackson criticized the Court’s growing use of summary orders to wipe away lower-court rulings after appeals become moot; If anything, she understated the problems.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one case and called for the views of the Solicitor General in two cases.

And in Donziger v. United States, No. 22–274, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch issued a dissent, in which Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined, from the denial of certiorari.

In Bashman (and Bashwoman) news from South London: Ertan Karpazli and Joe Smith of The Mirror (UK) report that “Four teenage girls ‘bash man and woman in head using bottle and crutch’ on London bus; The four female suspects, described as aged in their mid to late teens, allegedly caused chaos on the top deck of the bus as it passed through Croydon in South London late at night.”

“A case on free speech and immigration at the Supreme Court”: This audio segment appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Supreme Court affirmative action case adds urgency to push to end legacy admissions at colleges”: Hilary Burns of The Boston Globe has this report.

“Higher education faces an inflection point with DEI; Stanford Law School was just the cardinal in the coal mine”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Amgen Seeks to Monopolize Nature; The Supreme Court takes up an overbroad patent that seeks to pre-empt a competitor’s pharmaceutical product”: Gregory Winter has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Judicial Notice (03.25.23): Stepping In It; Much ado about doggie doo, a judicial nominee’s ‘oops’ moment, the Gwyneth Paltrow trial, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Trial date set for Charlie Adelson in Dan Markel murder case”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat recently had an article that begins, “Jury selection and testimony is slated to begin in October in the trial of Charlie Adelson, who is accused of orchestrating the 2014 professional hit on Florida State law professor Dan Markel.”