“Supreme Court Will End the Era of College Diversity; Universities have long used race as factor in admissions to try to engineer representative freshman classes; What happens after that’s illegal?” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Same-Sex Marriage Is a Religious Freedom”: Steven Paulikas has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Amy Coney Barrett’s Modest Way to End Racial Preferences; Congress outlawed racial preferences; It doesn’t matter if they’re constitutional”: Law professor John O. McGinnis has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“How a Supreme Court Case About Pigs Could Further Undermine . . . Abortion Rights; On the surface, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross is about animal cruelty; But for the conservatives, it’s also a way to attack basic rights”: Elie Mystal has this essay online at The Nation.

“Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor aren’t letting the Supreme Court go down without a fight; Steamrolled by a right-wing majority twice their size, the liberal bloc is wielding words as weapons to expose the danger of the conservative legal agenda”: Columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“New SCOTUS Books Coming In Over the Transom; As the Supreme Court’s new term begins, some important new books about the court have arrived”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Sonia Sotomayor tells young Rhode Islanders the surprising reasons she wanted to be a judge”: Amy Russo of The Providence Journal has this report.