“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.