“Voters this year will decide whether Florida Supreme Court justices stay or go; Five face merit-retention elections, and activists want some gone”: Michael Moline of Florida Phoenix has this report.

“California banned affirmative action in 1996. Inside the UC struggle for diversity.” Teresa Watanabe of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article headlined “What’s at stake for California schools as the Supreme Court takes up affirmative action in college admissions.”

“Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Affirmative Action Programs; The court’s conservative majority was wary of admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that take account of race to foster educational diversity”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes, Ann E. Marimow, and Nick Anderson of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court seems open to ending affirmative action in college admissions.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court’s conservatives appear ready to end college affirmative action.”

Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Race in College Admissions; Justices focus questions on educational benefits of diversity and any potential endpoint for race-conscious policies.”

John Fritze and Chris Quintana of USA Today have a report headlined “Affirmative action: Supreme Court signals skepticism of race-conscious college admissions.”

And Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Supreme Court eyes end of race-based preferences in school admissions.”

“As a Skeptical Supreme Court Weighs Race in College Admissions, ‘Brown’ Looms Large”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“Supreme Court Leaves Intact Ruling That Let US Require Masks on Planes, Trains”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could”: Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Can Harvard Discriminate by Race Forever? The school’s advocates can’t say when racial bias in admissions will end.” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Also in Tuesday’s edition of that newspaper, columnist William McGurn will have an op-ed titled “Affirmative Action Exposes the Secret Meaning of Equity; Within academia, all understand it as a way to favor some races at the expense of others.”

“The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard; Not that anything is likely to stop them from doing it anyway”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have a jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action. They’re Doing It Anyway.”

“The Supreme Court could upend the internet. How?” Law professor Christopher S. Yoo has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

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

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

“Google Case Before High Court Could Reshape Internet Economy; Tech industry fears legal rulings could weaken the liability shield that allowed internet platforms to flourish”: John D. McKinnon of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Race Has No Place in College Admissions; Why should some students have advantages over others simply because of the color of their skin?” Edward Blum will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Public Has a Right to Know Who Leaked the Dobbs Draft; Alito says the breach put justices’ lives in danger; That’s all the more reason for a serious investigation”: Alan M. Dershowitz will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Affirmative Action Has Become a Strange Monster”: Columnist Ross Douthat has this essay in the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Affirmative Action Is Wrong. There’s a Better Way to Make Campuses Diverse.” Renu Mukherjee has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Challenge to Harvard’s use of affirmative action was designed by a conservative to reach a friendly Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Historically diverse Supreme Court hears disproportionately from White lawyers; The court is grappling with several cases involving race, including two affirmative action cases set to be argued Monday”: Theodoric Meyer and Tobi Raji of The Washington Post have this report.

“Harvard and UNC race cases present test for U.S. Supreme Court”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“In Clash Over Affirmative Action, Both Sides Invoke Brown v. Board of Education; The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina — and the meaning of a civil rights landmark”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Education After Affirmative Action: The Supreme Court hears a challenge to affirmative action this week — and will likely overrule more than four decades of precedents on college admissions.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the November 7, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.

“Grizzly bear baiting is state right, Alaska tells U.S. Supreme Court”: Clark Mindock of Reuters has this report on a petition for writ of certiorari that Alaska recently filed at the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Another Vacancy Posted For Hawaii Supreme Court; It is the second associate justice position to become open this month due to term limits”: Chad Blair of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.

“The most diverse Supreme Court ever confronts affirmative action; Two Black justices, one Latina justice and an ascendant conservative bloc take up race-based college admissions policies that have splintered previous courts”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court to Revisit University Affirmative-Action Programs; Justices to hear arguments on challenge to any consideration of race in admissions policies of Harvard and University of North Carolina”: Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Colleges brace themselves for SCOTUS loss on race-conscious admissions; Ending race-conscious admissions policies at colleges could lead to legal attacks on the use of affirmative action in employment”: Bianca Quilantan of Politico has this report.

“Colleges will racially discriminate no matter how the Supreme Court rules”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“How one man brought affirmative action to the Supreme Court. Again and again. Edward Blum, the force behind the Harvard and UNC admissions cases, has spent decades challenging race-based laws aimed at repairing historic inequities.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Justice Dept. warns ruling in Trump ally’s suit could endanger U.S. diplomats; D.C. Circuit hears arguments on case former RNC fundraiser Elliott Broidy filed over alleged hacking of his emails”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on an oral argument that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard today.

“Federal appeals court blocks effort to investigate Joe Fischer’s Supreme Court bid; Judicial commission blocked from investigating Supreme Court candidate Joe Fischer over alleged partisan campaign”: Deborah Yetter and Joe Sonka of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this report on a per curiam ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.

“The Onion may be staffed by socialist wackos, but in their brief defending parody to this Court, they hit it out of the park.” So begins the argument section of an amicus brief that The Babylon Bee filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petition for writ of certiorari pending in Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, No. 22-293.

Regular readers of this blog will recall that, earlier this month, The Onion filed perhaps the greatest amicus brief of all time in support of the same cert. petition. That distinction already having been awarded to another amicus in this case, The Babylon Bee opted to also prepare an amicus brief in support of respondent, which its amicus brief in support of petitioner links to in a footnote.

“U.S. Supreme Court being asked to remove last vestige of Jim Crow from state Constitution”: Bobby Harrison of Mississippi Today has this report.

“On Affirmative Action, What Once Seemed Unthinkable Might Become Real”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“The Supreme Court Could Overturn Another Major Precedent. This Time, Americans Might Agree.” Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Zoha Qamar have this post at FiveThirtyEight.

“Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin”: Colleen Long of The Associated Press has this report.