“Big Business Taking over State Supreme Courts: How Campaign Contributions to Judges Tip the Scales Against Individuals.” The Center for American Progress issued this news release in connection with a report that the organization issued today.

“Administration urges justices to continue college affirmative action admissions”: Robert Barnes will have this article Tuesday in The Washington Post.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Obama Lawyers Urge High Court To Back Affirmative Action.”

At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a blog post titled “White House backs affirmative action in higher ed.”

The Texas Tribune reports that “Friends of the Court Support UT Admission Practices.”

And The Daily Californian has a news update headlined “UC files brief in support of race-based admissions policies.”

You can access the amicus briefs via this link.

“Justice Department opposes illegal immigrant’s bid to practice law; Justice Department says federal law prohibits giving a public benefit, such as a bar license, to an ‘unlawfully present alien’ — in this case, Sergio C. Garcia of California”: Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Government backs Texas U. on use of race”: At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post that begins, “The Obama Administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to uphold the University of Texas’ use of race in selecting its incoming class of students, arguing that the university needed to add that factor to assure that more minorities are enrolled.”

Update: At the “School Law” blog of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled “Obama Backs University of Texas on Race in Admissions.”

And Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Justice: UT affirmative action policy legal.”

“Industry groups seek court rehearing over GHG regulations”: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has this report.

“None of the Supreme Court Justices Has Battle Experience”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Hawaii at a time like this? Judges’ trip to Maui raises eyebrows.” This article appeared Saturday in The Los Angeles Times.

“Supreme Court to hear international child custody dispute”: Jonathan Stempel and Terry Baynes of Reuters have this report.

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court grants one new case.”

You can access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.