“New website will let law clerks judge their judges”: Rachel Weiner of The Washington Post recently had this report.

“Federal court lets Indiana ban on gender-affirming care for minors take effect”: Caroline Beck of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

And at his Substack site, Chris Geidner has a post titled “Seventh Circuit restricts trans minors’ rights in Indiana without a word explaining why; The appeals court allowed Indiana’s law banning gender-affirming medical care for minors to go into effect for the first time Tuesday in an unusual, questionable order.”

“AI Use in Law Practice Needs Common Sense, Not More Court Rules”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“Why the Supreme Court Had to Hear Trump’s Case; The D.C. Circuit’s ruling was so sweeping that it posed a danger to our constitutional democracy”: David B. Rivkin Jr. and law professor Elizabeth Price Foley will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Four Internet Analogies of the Apocalypse: How the Supreme Court in the Netchoice oral arguments got snagged on the most basic problem in the history of the Internet, and what that reveals about how they should rule.” Kate Klonick has this post at her Substack site, “The Klonickles.”

“Supreme Court Appears Split Over Ban on Bump Stocks Enacted Under Trump; In a wide-ranging argument, the justices wrestled with the mechanics of gun triggers and the larger implications of the ban both for bump stock owners and the public”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court divided over gun-rights challenge to Trump bump stock ban; While some conservatives were skeptical, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called bump stocks ‘the kind of weapons Congress was intending to prohibit because of the damage they cause.’”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court appears to favor upholding ban on rapid-fire bump stocks.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Considers Ban on Bump-Stock Firearm Devices; Trump-era decision classified devices as machine guns after Las Vegas massacre.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today has an article headlined “‘Functioning like a machine gun’? Supreme Court debates whether bump stocks are illegal; ‘You have to apply a little bit of common sense,’ said Justice Elena Kagan, who used to go hunting with the late Justice Antonin Scalia; Justice Sonia Sotomayer was piqued by an ‘arthritis’ defense.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court grapples with machine gun function versus bump stocks in battle over ban.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “Amy Coney Barrett Gets to Decide If Machine Guns Are Actually Legal; The Supreme Court is looking at the bump stocks that caused the Las Vegas music festival shooting to be so deadly.”

“The Insignificance of Trump’s ‘Immunity from Prosecution’ Argument: If and when the Supreme Court decides to hear the case, the stakes will be far less momentous than many observers might assume, because the answer to the immunity question matters very little for Trump’s prosecution.” Marty Lederman had this pre-cert. grant post at the “Lawfare” blog.

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Exactly What He Wanted; In a stunning move, the justices all but guaranteed that the former president will evade trial before November.”

“‘One More Stressor’: Three Circuits Keep Panels Secret Until Argument Day; Some appellate attorneys want the Fourth, Seventh and Federal circuits to join the other federal appeals courts in giving more than same-day notice of the judges who will hear their case.” Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Senator Kennedy’s Judicial Pop Quizzes Trip Up Nervous Nominees”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Let Crystal Clanton Move On; Democrats are taking the wrong lesson from this”: Law professor Steven Lubet has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

At Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has an essay titled “Clarence Thomas’s Own-the-Libs Stunt Will Make People’s Lives Worse; How is a Black person supposed to trust a Supreme Court that hires open bigots to write the first draft of constitutional law?”

And at “Dorf on Law,” Eric Segall has a blog post titled “Justice Thomas and Race: Making Life Harder for People of Color One Case at a Time.”

“Pa. High Court Cleared Up a Big Strict Products Liability Law Question in ‘Sullivan’”: Jeffrey F. Laffey has this essay online at The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“Philly saw a surge in medical malpractice filings after Pa. change on court location rules; A new system of medical malpractice case management, designed to get through a pandemic backlog, is helping it get through cases more quickly”: Harold Brubaker of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.