“Supreme Court examines bully pulpit’s power in the digital age; The high court will round out its inquiry on government entanglements with online speech looking at the Biden administration’s efforts to combat vaccine and election misinformation”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“At Second Circuit, global banks battle claims they aided al-Qaida, Taliban; The plaintiffs say that the lenders did business with Pakistani fertilizer plants that provided the terror groups with explosive materials”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can download the audio of today’s Second Circuit oral argument via this link.

“After Kavanaugh: Christine Blasey Ford tells the rest of her story; In her memoir, ‘One Way Back,’ Blasey Ford details the chaos that ensued after she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her”: Columnist Monica Hesse has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Religious supremacy, not Supremacy Clause, is key to Fifth Circuit contraception ruling; Judge Kyle Duncan held that longstanding federal policy that clinics receiving Title X funding need to provide adolescents with confidential access to contraception is wrong”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“Alabama’s IVF Protection Law Shows the People’s Check on Courts”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“Texas teens need parental consent to access birth control, federal appeals court rules”: Bayliss Wagner of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Pooja Salhotra of The Texas Tribune reports that “5th Circuit upholds Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for contraception; A three-judge panel in New Orleans ruled that a Texas law requiring minors to obtain parental consent to obtain birth control does not conflict with the goals of the federally-funded Title X program, which has given teens birth control confidentially.”

Brendan Pierson of Reuters reports that “Court upholds Texas parental consent law for birth control.”

Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has a report headlined “US Law Doesn’t Preempt Texas’ Teen Birth Control Notice Rule; Title X program promotes confidentiality in family planning; Presented conflict between contraceptive access, parent rights.”

And in commentary, online at the Daily Beast, Eleanor Clift has an essay titled “Court’s Contraception Ruling Is a Scary Sign of What May Come; A Fifth Circuit decision backing a Texas contraception law shows the conservative fight is just beginning.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Is the End of the Filibuster Near? The Senate’s signature procedural tactic is losing some of its staunchest defenders in Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, leaving its future in doubt.” Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this new installment of his “Congressional Memo” column.

“Extra Burden or Fewer Late Nights? What Lawyers Think of 3rd Circuit’s New 5 P.M. Filing Deadline; Some attorneys expect work-life balance benefits while others aren’t quite sold on the earlier deadline but are getting used to it.” Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Conservative US judges criticize new rule curbing ‘judge shopping’; 5th Circuit Judges Edith Jones, James Ho issue critical statements; 5th Circuit hears appeals from Texas courts at issue in policy change”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Why Are Democrats Turning Their Backs On People In States With GOP Senators? Senate Democrats often talk about what they’d ‘lose’ by getting rid of blue slips; They rarely acknowledge what they’ve already lost by keeping them.” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“The Judicial Conference Legislates From The Shadow Docket; The Chief Justice and his associates target only one type of forum shopping in response to political criticism through a secret policy that will not be released for months”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Also at that blog, Samuel Bray has a related post titled “A Welcome Judicial Reform: Towards Random Case Assignment.”

“It’s Too Soon to Say if the Colorado Ballot Case Was a Loss for Anti-Trump Forces; Yes, the Supreme Court kept Trump on the ballot, but requiems for failed constitutional litigation — as Lincoln’s Chief Justice appointment knew — are often premature; Here’s why”: Law professor Mark A. Graber has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“Judicial Review, the Supreme Court, and a Possible Constitutional Apocalypse”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“On race-based school admissions, the Supreme Court flinched”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The People Rooting for the End of IVF; An Alabama court ruling that recognized an embryo as a child has put the popular fertility treatment into the center of a national ethics debate”: Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic has this report.