Thursday round-up

Briefly:

• At CNN, Joan Biskupic reports after a rare in-chambers interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who announced that she is “’cancer free,’” that “[i]n the current session, [Ginsburg] appears back with renewed vigor, especially on procedural questions — an emphasis that is important for the court’s left at the moment.”
• At The National Law Journal, Tony Mauro and Mike Scarcella report that “[n]early four years after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the FBI recently released its files on Scalia, offering a peek inside the confirmation process for his circuit court and Supreme Court nominations.”
• At Justia’s Verdict blog, Michael Dorf suggests that Chief Justice John Roberts’ year-end report on the federal judiciary shows that Roberts “may be a closeted never-Trumper.”
• At Vox (via How Appealing), Ian Millhiser argues that the two cases consolidated under June Medical Services v. Gee, one challenging Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and one asking whether abortion providers can sue on behalf of their patients, threaten to inflict a “one-two punch against abortion plaintiffs [that] could make it nearly impossible for anyone to obtain an abortion in states that bar the procedure.”

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