Attorneys using judicial avenues to force action on climate change will confront - for the foreseeable future - a firmly conservative, pro-business Supreme Court. Professor Michael Allan Wolf (Univ. Florida College of Law) explains how attorneys can package environmentally-friendly causes in conservative-friendly arguments; and Philip Gregory (Gregory Law Group), co-counsel in a climate suit currently stayed by SCOTUS, argues that the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a stable, secure climate.

For the first time, SCOTUS' law clerk class is majority female; but that milestone follows a bitter confirmation fight that centered on sexual assault and gender parity issues, and comes in part because of the new justice's all-women clerk cohort. Former Supreme Court clerks Tara Kole (Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown) and Prof. Sherry Colb (Cornell Law School)help make sense of the conflicting, gender-suffused events of the past few weeks.

The third episode of the DJ on the J.D., the Daily Journal’s legal education podcast, features two first-year UCLA School of Law students. They were part of the 8 percent rise in law school applicants this past admissions cycle, an increase that has been called the “Trump Bump.” Aspiring lawyers Alberto De Diego Carreras and Tyler Fields, who come from two different political perspectives, joined host Lyle Moran to discuss their decisions to attend law school. Podcast edited by Nick Perez.

Adam Feldman, from the blog Empirical SCOTUS, offers a quantitative-based preview of Brett Kavanaugh’s first term. And Seth Stodder, former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border, Immigration, and Trade Policy, unpacks Wednesday’s Supreme Court argument in the 9th Circuit immigration appeal 'Nielsen v. Preap.'

Ellis Horvitz, founder of Horvitz & Levy and pioneer of appellate-centered legal practice, was honored Friday as the inaugural inductee to the California Lawyers Association's Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame; before the ceremony he spoke with us to share thoughts on his life and practice.

Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, on the first of a hopefully ongoing podcast series, provide contrasting views on the Kavanaugh confirmation gauntlet, and the impact it will leave on the Court, the nominee, and future nominees.

As a new Supreme Court term commences, partly overshadowed by a seething political feud surrounding the proposed new ninth justice, two appellate experts - Blaine Evanson (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher) and Justin Levitt (Loyola Law School)- help preview the next act for this new Court.

David Kaplan, 'Newsweek' veteran and Supreme Court chronicler, visits to discuss his new book 'The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution.'

An en banc 9th Circuit will reconsider whether due process in removal proceedings guarantees undocumented minors government-sponsored counsel; Andrew Arthur (Center for Immigration Studies) and Stephen Kang (ACLU) offer competing views. And Kevin Johnson (UC Davis SOL) describes how “egregious” regulatory violations may terminate deportation actions. Plus, reporter Chase DiFeliciantonio describes Jeff Sessions’ latest move to restrict the discretion of immigration judges.

The 9th Circuit rejected a Koch Industries-backed charity's claim that state-required disclosures of top donor information violate its First Amendment right to free association; might this ruling prompt a newly-constituted SCOTUS to revisit campaign finance regulations and political dark money? Competing amici Tara Malloy and Megan McAllen (Campaign Legal Center) and Jeremy Talcott (Pacific Legal Foundation) discuss.