“Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’; In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute”: Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

“Tired, testy and fractured: The Supreme Court prepares for more drama.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court Conservatives Add New Minority Voter Roadblocks; 6-3 court says legislators must be given presumption of good faith; Harder for minority voters to claim votes ‘diluted’”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Louisiana governor signs bill classifying abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances; The state is the only one categorize mifepristone and misoprostol this way”: Daniella Silva and Natalie Obregon of NBC News has this report.

“Dan Markel murder: Charlie Adelson, serving life sentence, moved to prison in South Dakota.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“A Federal Judge Wonders: How Could Alito Have Been So Foolish?” Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor (D. Mass.) has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Alito’s Second Flag Is About More Than Just Jan. 6; It’s a window into the Supreme Court justice’s ominous vision”: Molly Olmstead has this essay online at Slate.

“Justice Sotomayor Describes Frustration With Being a Liberal on the Supreme Court; In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“The Supreme Court Doesn’t Agree on What Racism Is; Six justices think of racism as overt bigotry; The other three see it as structural”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS; The Supreme Court’s end-of-term is going to be chaos; It doesn’t have to be.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Alito and Thomas Aren’t Really Jurists. They’re Theocratic Leninists. The Supreme Court justices are intent on using maximal power to fundamentally reorder society.” Michael Tomasky has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Justice Alito’s Latest Vexing Vexillology; The new supposed scandal: a flag from the Revolutionary War.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.