“Politics Has No Place at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts Says”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Chief Justice Roberts Defends Supreme Court Against Partisan Criticism; Results of cases show Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh don’t ‘march in lockstep,’ he says.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “His Supreme Court divided like the country, Chief Justice John Roberts prepares for outsized role as umpire.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court not politicized, says Chief Justice Roberts.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Not Politically Split, Chief Justice Roberts Says.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “John Roberts says Supreme Court doesn’t work in a ‘political manner.’”

Brie Stimson of Fox News reports that “Chief Justice Roberts says Supreme Court nonpartisan.”

And in commentary, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled “An Apolitical Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts defends the unpredictable Justices.”

“John Roberts can learn something from the British Supreme Court”: Philip Allen Lacovara has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Britain’s brilliant method of picking Supreme Court justices, explained; The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’s unanimous smackdown of Prime Minister Boris Johnson was brought to you by their superior method of picking justices”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“A Whole New Ballgame: How Trump’s First Time Judges are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Dan Markel case: Jury seated in murder trial of Sigfredo Garcia, Katherine Magbanua.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Dan Markel murder: Attorneys grill potential jurors about conspiracy, credibility.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.