Welcome to Supreme Court Brief! The justices are off the bench, in between argument sessions, and we’re catching up on docket things. We look down the road for what may be ahead for bar license fees challenges after the justices on Monday spurned a case confronting the North Dakota bar’s scheme. Plus: Justice Sotomayor offered a rare public explanation for her recusal in the “faithless electors” case. And two law profs make a pitch to the justices to end universal injunctions in their amicus brief in a pending Affordable Care Act case. Scroll down for headlines, including competing reports on a Wisconsin federal judge’s new article titled “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy.”

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