The Dishonest Cancellation Campaign against Ilya Shapiro  —  Ilya Shapiro has been writing and speaking on the Supreme Court for the Cato Institute (where he ran the Cato Supreme Court Review), the Federalist Society, various conservative publications, and mainstream outlets such as guest blogging at SCOTUSBlog for years.

Newsmax host: Is Breyer's retirement the way Hillary ends up as president?  —  In fairness to Grant Stinchfield, this is only the second-craziest succession scheme I've seen in the past 24 hours.  Take a bow, Nikki Haley: … Forced to choose between President Biden and President Pelosi, I'll stick with Sleepy Joe.

New Georgetown Law Exec Deletes ‘Appalling’ Tweets About Biden SCOTUS Picks  —  ‘LESSER BLACK WOMAN’  —  Less than a week after being hired to head a high-profile research department at Georgetown Law School, the former head of a conservative D.C. think tank predicted that Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee …

13 Legal Experts on How Breyer's Replacement Will Change the Court  —  The news that Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court galvanized the legal and political worlds this week.  With so much riding on every SCOTUS seat, it's impossible to ignore how big the consequences might be.

Putin Can't Be Appeased  —  Vladimir Putin has deployed some 100,000 troops to Russia's border with Ukraine.  He has moved fighter jets and antiaircraft defenses into neighboring Belarus.  He has around 6,000 soldiers, as well as air and naval assets, in Crimea, the peninsula in south Ukraine that he annexed illegally eight years ago.

The real reason some people are so afraid of ‘Maus’  —  ‘Maus’ author reacts to his book being banned  —  David M. Perry is a journalist and historian and co-author of “The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe.”  He is a senior academic adviser in the history department of the University of Minnesota.