“Texas woman gets prestigious call-up as Supreme Court clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor”: Chris Shelton of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

“A Black woman on the Supreme Court? Check your blind spots.” Columnist Luis Carrasco has this essay online at The Seattle Times.

“Alabama’s redistricting case shows — again — whose rights matter to the Supreme Court”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

And online at The Guardian (UK), professor Carol Anderson has an essay titled “The US supreme court is letting racist discrimination run wild in the election system; The court has approved or tolerated massive voter roll purges, extreme gerrymandering and election laws that have a disparate impact on minorities.”

“What the Supreme Court’s decision on Alabama’s maps could mean for the Voting Rights Act”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.

“Biden weighs appeal of 3 top candidates for high court”: Colleen Long of The Associated Press has this report.

“Michelle Childs, a potential Supreme Court pick, recalls being ‘devastated’ at father’s gunshot death; Childs’s experiences growing up with a single mother and breaking barriers in the South helped shape her positions”: Michael Kranish of The Washington Post has this report.