“Supreme Court rules against Coinbase in arbitration dispute”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Sides With Republicans Over South Carolina Voting Map; The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Patrick Marley, Ann E. Marimow, and Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court’s South Carolina ruling boosts GOP, with national implications; The ruling allows the state to use a map favorable to Republicans and is expected to make it far more difficult for voters nationwide to challenge racial gerrymandering.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court OKs shift of Black voters to shore up GOP congressional district.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Allows South Carolina’s GOP-Drawn Congressional Map, Rejecting Racial Discrimination Claim; Justices raise bar for challenging political maps as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court backs GOP plan in SC that critics say discriminated against Black voters; The decision comes at a time of uncertainty about the once-a-decade process of redrawing congressional districts that can decide control of the House.”

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court upholds South Carolina election map over Black voter challenge.”

“Abortion Pills in Louisiana Could Soon Be in Same Category as Opioids; Louisiana would become the first state to classify misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances”: Joseph De Avila of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“A Flagging Campaign Against Justice Alito; The ‘ethics’ attack having failed, the left turns to flag etiquette”: Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“What These Stories About Samuel Alito’s ‘Provocative’ Flags Are Really About; No, John Roberts is not going to do anything about this one either”: Dahlia Lithwick has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled “How Many Coup-Adjacent Flags Can One Supreme Court Justice Possibly Have: If there is a flagpole on the premises, this man is apparently powerless to stop himself from displaying the preferred symbols of violent insurrectionists.”

“Meet Arizona’s most powerful political couple, who are on opposite ends of an abortion ban”: Faith E. Pinho of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “Before she voted to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban, Sen. Shawnna Bolick rose from her seat on the Senate floor to painstakingly detail one woman’s three difficult pregnancies.”

And on Monday, The Arizona Republic posted online an essay by Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick titled “I don’t need to be a Supreme Court justice. But Arizona needs the system that got me here ‘Vote Them Out!’ might boot me from the Arizona Supreme Court. But the effort could have a much worse impact on our state’s judicial merit selection system.”

“President Biden Names Fiftieth Round of Judicial Nominees”: The White House issued this news release today, which includes the announcement of nominees for the First and Sixth Circuits.

The First Circuit nominee would be a second-generation First Circuit judge, while the Sixth Circuit nominee will replace the judge for whom she clerked on that court.

In early news coverage, Evan Mealins of The Tennessean reports that “Biden to nominate Nashville attorney for Sixth Circuit federal appeals court.”

“Filibuster Politics Shape Strategies on Alito Nomination; Democrats’ excesses put them at severe disadvantage”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

And Ed’s post from last Thursday was titled “Samuel Alito Gets Big Boost from Harriet Miers Fiasco; George W. Bush’s third pick for O’Connor seat unifies Republicans.”

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2024 SCOTUS Clerks; Yale Law bests Harvard, D.D.C. trounces S.D.N.Y., and other trends in SCOTUS clerk selection.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in three argued cases.

1. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Coinbase v. Suski, No. 23-3. And Justice Neil M. Gorsuch issued a concurring opinion. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, No. 22-807. Justice Clarence Thomas issued an opinion concurring in part. And Justice Elena Kagan issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Jackson joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

3. And Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court in Brown v. United States, No. 23-6389. Justice Jackson issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Kagan joined in full and Justice Gorsuch joined in large measure. You can access the oral argument via this link.