“The Many Sins of College Admissions”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Indiana Supreme Court to decide validity of 183-year prison term issued to 16-year-old Gary double murderer”: Dan Carden of The Times of Munster, Indiana has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Sex Debate: Congress is the place to rewrite laws as social mores change.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Why it might have been better if the Supreme Court had let colleges have ‘quotas'”: Columnist Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court keeps gun law challenge on docket despite Democrats’ threat to pack the court”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“In case against Ocwen, a sign of turmoil to come for CFPB”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Supreme Court asked to decide if Electoral College voters are bound to the state’s winner”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Logjam of abortions cases pressures Supreme Court to consider when life begins; Conservative-leaning bench could weaken Roe”: Alex Swoyer has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.

And Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “Abortion case adds to turmoil facing Chief Justice John Roberts.”

“Gay rights battle against employment discrimination extends beyond the grave, and to the Supreme Court”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“From smears to cheers: Justice Kavanaugh cements Trump ‘judicial legacy’ in first year on court.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Weighs Ending Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts in Criminal Cases”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report, along with an article headlined “Supreme Court Opens New Term With Argument on Insanity Defense.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court’s new term opens with arguments over unanimous juries, insanity as a criminal defense.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Opens Term With Look at Kansas’ Effort to Bar Insanity Defense; Several justices balk at seeing historical rights of defendants reduced; less-than-unanimous convictions also on docket.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court, trying to remain above the partisan fray, opens 2019 term with a debate about insanity.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Kansas man’s insanity defense case earns little sympathy from Supreme Court justices.”

Tim Carpenter of The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that “U.S. Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of Kansas’ approach to insanity defense.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Court seems ready to require unanimous juries as term opens.”

Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters report that “U.S. Supreme Court opens new term, with an ill Justice Thomas absent.”

In commentary, online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Should Let the States Define Insanity; Our legal understanding of mental illness shouldn’t be restricted to a 19th-century precedent.”

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Looks Poised to Outlaw Split Jury Verdicts; Even Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch seemed ready to strike down the racist relic.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Kahler v. Kansas, No. 18-6135.

And you can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Ramos v. Louisiana, No. 18-5924.

“Is The Supreme Court Heading For A Conservative Revolution?” Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux of FiveThirtyEight has this report.

“Judge Danielle Hunsaker — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“A ‘view’ from the courtroom: Two-minute warning.” Mark Walsh has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas: Joshua Cohen and Corey Robin discuss the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence — and what it means for those on the left who often dismiss the justice’s use of race.” Boston Review recently posted this discussion onilne.

“Men Get Stereotyped Too. It’s Time the Court Acknowledges It. The LGBTQ rights cases at the Supreme Court turn on stereotypes of what it means to be male.” Law professor Carliss Chatman has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Rights of Gay Employees Up Next on Supreme Court Docket; Civil Rights Act of 1964 barring workplace discrimination has been open to interpretation”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Dan Markel trial: Wiretaps reveal web of communication between murder suspects.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Fighting for Abortion Access in the South: A fund in Georgia is responding to restrictive legislation with a familial kind of care.” Alexis Okeowo has this article in the October 14, 2019 issue of The New Yorker.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

In N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol v. New York, No. 18-280, the Court denied respondents’ Suggestion of Mootness but directed the parties to be prepared to discuss that issue at oral argument.