“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.

“‘Originalism Is Intellectually Indefensible’: Eric Foner on the Enduring Myth of the Colorblind Constitution; A conversation with the historian and Second Founding author about the parts of the Constitution that conservative judges keep trying to forget.” Cristian Farias has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Federal Exceptionalism and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Framers’ Intent”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Harvard, UNC Race-Based Admissions Cases Put Supreme Court Justices on Collision Course; Supreme Court weighs affirmative action in college admissions; Chief’s scorn for racial preferences at odds with new justice”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“How Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ helps Republicans — and enables unlawful policy: From Lindsey Graham to Donald Trump to Kelli Ward, this worrying pattern of behavior sends an increasingly partisan message.” Law professor Steve Vladeck has this essay online at MSNBC.

“Appellate ruling may force another Supreme Court look at CFPB; Decision could create more difficulties for the agency’s regulatory duties and require possible congressional action”: Caitlin Reilly of Roll Call has this report.

“Decades of stark divisions over affirmative action set for Supreme Court showdown; Justices will consider next week whether to end affirmative action in cases challenging policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Behind U.S. Supreme Court race cases, a contested push for ‘color blindness'”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

“Supreme Court faces chance to settle racial preferences in school admissions”: Stephen Dinan has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.