“Gov. Wolf appeals court ruling voiding school mask mandate”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

“Inside Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic — and the Biggest Fight for Abortion Rights in a Generation”: Abigail Abrams has this cover story in the new issue of Time magazine.

“Court Issues Brief Hold on Release of Trump Files in Jan. 6 Inquiry; Congress had been set to receive the first batch of Trump White House files from the National Archives on Friday, a move that the former president had fought”: Charlie Savage and Luke Broadwater of The New York Times have this report.

Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court temporarily bars release of Trump White House records to House Jan. 6 committee.”

Byron Tau and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal report that “Appeals Court Delays Release of Trump Records to the House While Fast-Tracking Arguments; Court’s action temporarily stays a trial court ruling this week that would have released the records to the House.”

Kara Scannell of CNN reports that “Democrat-appointed appellate panel pauses release of Trump White House records ahead of Friday deadline.”

And Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Appeals court slows Jan. 6 committee’s effort to access Trump White House records; The National Archives had been preparing to deliver the documents on Friday, but the three-judge panel will instead hear arguments in the matter on Nov. 30.”

You can view today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Midnight at SCOTUS: In 1997, the Supreme Court publicly tried to discourage parties from filing pleas and applications in a way that made the justices make weighty decisions late at night.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“CVS drops Supreme Court appeal in Bay Area case that challenged prescription policies”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a report that begins, “Less than a month before the Supreme Court was to hear a Bay Area suit against CVS that could have narrowed the scope of the nation’s disability laws, the drugstore chain announced an agreement Wednesday with advocacy groups and HIV patients who had challenged its policies on receiving prescription medication.”

“The Supreme Court Tactic That Aims to Kill Affirmative Action; A group suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has asked the court to hear the two cases together, hoping for a ruling that would apply across higher education”: Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.

“Democrats, leave the Supreme Court alone”: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“How Trump Transformed the Supreme Court: The legal journalist Linda Greenhouse expects the new conservative majority to change American law on abortion, religion, and affirmative action.” Isaac Chotiner has this “Q.&A.” online at The New Yorker.

“Supreme Court’s Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump’s executive privilege claims”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“New rulings set up Louisiana Supreme Court showdown over 1,500 non-unanimous jury verdicts”: John Simerman of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

“Homer Plessy, namesake of Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ ruling, is up for a pardon; Creole man of color was arrested in New Orleans in 1892 for refusing to sit in train’s ‘colored car'”: Matt Sledge of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

“Affirmative action opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to take UNC, Harvard cases together”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.