“The Supreme Court and Racial Preferences: The Justices can reassert the principle that discriminating by race is illegal.” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“It’s Still the Roberts Court. And That’s a Good Thing.” Adam J. White has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Conservative activist steers U.S. Supreme Court college race cases”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Private papers reveal the tactics that helped SCOTUS uphold the use of affirmative action”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“Biden administration urges Supreme Court to reject ‘extraordinarily disruptive’ theory in major elections case; The court hears oral arguments in December in a Republican attempt to strip state courts of the authority to oversee election-related issues”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Joe Kennedy’s return to Bremerton High School football team slated for March 2023”: Andrew Binion of The Kitsap Sun of Bremerton, Washington has this report.

And Mark A. Kellner of The Washington Times reports that “Praying high school football coach to return to the field by March.”

“Adrian Vermeule on ‘The Original Scalia’ | Herbert W. Vaughan Academic Program”: Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.

The video’s description concludes, “Following Vermeule’s remarks, Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and the Hon. Andrew Oldham, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit shared their perspectives on his arguments. The discussion was moderated by Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor Law at Harvard Law School.”

“Special Master in MoneyGram Feud at SCOTUS Has Surprise Change of Mind; ‘Upon reading the arguments before the Supreme Court and returning to the record in the case, I can no longer subscribe to the entirety of the recommendations I made to the Supreme Court,’ the special master said in an order Wednesday”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.