WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Friday, December 15
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on Dec 15, 2023 at 11:09 am
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:
- Inside the exclusive world of Supreme Court clerks driving America’s legal controversies (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
- What Sandra Day O’Connor Got Wrong (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
- Is Compelled Decryption Heading to the Supreme Court? (Orin Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy)
- Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade (Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
- Supreme Court leaves Illinois semiautomatic gun ban in place (Nina Totenberg, NPR)