The morning read for Tuesday, Oct. 8

The justices will hear oral arguments this morning in Garland v. VanDerStok and Lackey v. Stinnie. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Heres the Tuesday morning read:

• Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation (Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press)
• Supreme Court seeks Biden admin views on state climate fight (Lesley Clark, E&E News)
• In pet food case, US Supreme Court grapples with weight of a footnote (Alison Frankel, Reuters)
• Death Penalty, Nuclear Waste and More: Supreme Court Rounds Out Coming Term (Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• Supreme Court declines to take up dark money case (Taylor Giorno, The Hill)