The morning read for Monday, April 15

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Heres the Monday morning read:

• Corruption or Just Politics? Supreme Court Weighs New Bribery Case as More Clashes Are Brewing (Jan Wolfe & C. Ryan Barber, The Wall Street Journal)
• Jan. 6 Obstruction Case at Supreme Court Could Help Trump and Many Others (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• Fallout from Trump’s bid to overturn election loss heads to Supreme Court (John Kruzel, Reuters)
• The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizonas abortion ban (Christine Fernando, The Associated Press)
• A Taxonomy for Court Reform (Steve Vladeck, One First)

Coming up: On Tuesday, April 16 and Wednesday, April 17, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:45 a.m. EDT each day.