“What Biden’s Appointees Can Tell Us About His Supreme Court Nominee”: Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Elena Mejía of FiveThirtyEight have this report.

“US Sen. Ben Ray Luján undergoes surgery following stroke”: Ryan Boetel of The Albuquerque Journal has this report.

Chris Cameron and Emily Cochrane of The New York Times report that “Senator Ben Ray Luján Recovering After Suffering Stroke; Any prolonged absence by the New Mexico Democrat threatens to impede the agenda of his party, which controls the Senate by the slimmest of margins.”

Amy B Wang and Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post report that “Sen. Luján suffers stroke, expected to make full recovery, his office says.”

And Natalie Andrews of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján Hospitalized for Stroke; New Mexico lawmaker’s absence leaves Democrats short of a crucial vote in Senate while he recovers.”

“Biden Supreme Court front-runner Ketanji Brown Jackson faces scrutiny for overturned decisions; In her judgeship confirmation hearing in 2021, conservatives pointed to Jackson’s overturned cases involving Trump-era executive orders”: Houston Keene of Fox News has this report.

“Case trajectory to high court is bypassing normal circuit at historic levels; As the U.S. Supreme Court increasingly takes up disputes that haven’t yet made their rounds through the stations of judgment and appeal, experts call it symptomatic of a deeper problem”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Here’s who will help Biden’s Supreme Court pick navigate Senate hearings”: Scott Detrow of NPR has this report.

And Katie Rogers of The New York Times reports that “White House Chooses Doug Jones to Guide Supreme Court Nominee; Once President Biden picks a nominee, Mr. Jones will introduce her to senators and prepare her for hearings.”

“Justice Breyer to Retire: The apolitical pragmatist makes the pragmatic political choice.” Nancy Gertner joined Dahlia Lithwick on the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast.

“A Supreme Court Front-Runner Delivered a Big Victory to Federal Unions”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Federal Judges Who Can Take Senior Status Need to Do It Now”: Elie Mystal has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Judicial Opinion Barbs Reflect Political Divisions, Twitter Era”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke’s writings are again getting attention as he crafted a majority opinion and an alternative attached as a concurrence he said liberal colleagues could adopt en banc in the Second Amendment case.”

“The architect of Reagan’s pledge to put a woman on the Supreme Court says it was all political”: Columnist Mark Z. Barabak has this essay in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“A new Supreme Court case could make it nearly impossible to stop racial gerrymanders; The Court takes up its first big redistricting case since Republicans gained a 6-3 supermajority; What could go wrong?” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“How Biden’s Vow to Name a Black Woman to the Supreme Court Backfired; A campaign promise has needlessly tokenized future nominees”: Christina Cauterucci has this essay online at Slate.

“Abortion and the 13th Amendment”: Law professor Andrew Koppelman has this essay online at The Hill.

“Biden vs. Trump: The Makings of a Shattering Constitutional Crisis; January 2025 could make January 2021 seem tame by comparison.” Law professors Bruce Ackerman and Gerard Magliocca have this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Let’s Bring the Supreme Court Back Down to Earth”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Profile of a potential nominee: Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Coincidentally, today Judge Jackson issued this opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“What Qualifies a Supreme Court Justice: Obviously, it goes beyond gender and race.” Dan McLaughlin has this essay online at National Review.

“Judging Merit by Identity: In making race and sex the paramount considerations for his Supreme Court nomination, President Biden will deal another blow to the quality of our most important institutions.” Heather Mac Donald has this essay online at City Journal.