“The Supreme Court finally has a code of ethics, but it has a fatal flaw”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear San Diego case involving unwitting drug couriers; Petition asks Supreme Court to decide if government witnesses can testify, generally rather than specifically, that ‘blind mules’ are not common”: Alex Riggins of The San Diego Union-Tribune has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s path to issuing an ethics code and the fine print”: Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post have this report.

“We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?” Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Oklahoma Supreme Court halts anti-abortion laws challenged by women’s rights groups”: M. Scott Carter of The Oklahoman has this report.

And Barbara Hoberock of The Tulsa World reports that “Oklahoma Supreme Court orders hold on enforcement of three abortion laws.”

You can access today’s 5-to-4 ruling of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma at this link.

“Donald Trump’s Insurrection Act Gambit; In a second term, he could use the law’s overbroad language to curtail liberties”: Columnist William A. Galston will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Indiana school ready to pay Paul Clement’s firm $200K to defend anti-trans bathroom ban; A contract obtained by Law Dork lays out the agreement, which shows the conservative lawyer took the case at a deep pay cut”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Is Toothless, Experts Say; The code of conduct issued on Monday, following reports of undisclosed travel and gifts, includes no enforcement mechanism and lets individual justices decide ethics questions for themselves”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Supreme Court fails to quiet ethics critiques with new code of conduct; The high court aimed to tamp down criticism that its members were not accountable to ethics standards, but its code of conduct has only set off a new wave of admonishment.”

In commentary, online at Slate, law professor Steven Lubet has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court’s New Attempt to Combat Its Scandals Is Not Going Well.”

And at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has a post titled “The Conservative Legal Movement’s Fingerprints Are All Over the SCOTUS Code of Conduct; The justices’ unenforceable ‘ethics code’ is also conspicuously tailored to all the unethical things the justices love doing so much.”

“Louisiana State Bar violated lawyers’ free speech rights, appeals court rules”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report.

Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law reports that “Louisiana Lawyer’s Rights Violated by Wellness, LGBTQ+ Posts.”

Cameron Langford of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fifth Circuit sides with Louisiana attorney in First Amendment row with state bar; An appellate panel stopped short of finding mandatory bar associations are unconstitutional; But it clarified what type of speech is off limits for them.”

And Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal reports that “Bar Association’s Mandatory Dues Violate 1st Amendment, 5th Circuit Says; The Louisiana State Bar Association ‘crossed the line when it promoted purely informational articles absent any tailoring to the legal profession,’ Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the three-member panel.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“‘Journey to justice’: Donna Adelson’s arrest is a ‘major win’ for the Markel family.” Elena Barrera of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“What SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein Doesn’t Miss About the Court”: You can access at this link today’s new installment of David Lat’s “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“Read Donna Adelson arrest warrant: Talk of fleeing, suicide and ‘getting things in order.’” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report. The newspaper has posted the document at this link.

Lynn Hatter and Gina Jordan of WFSU report that “One week after her son’s murder conviction, Donna Adelson is arrested.”

And Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has a post titled “Donna Adelson arrested attempting to flee country, justice watchers fired up.”

“Optionality in Choice of Law”: John F. Coyle recently had this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.”

“Donna Adelson arrested in Dan Markel murder after booking one-way plane tickets to Vietnam”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Just a week after Charlie Adelson was found guilty in the murder-for-hire killing of Dan Markel, his mother, Donna Adelson, was arrested in the law professor’s demise and taken into custody at Miami International Airport.”