“The Campaign against Justice Gorsuch’s New Book Is an Embarrassment; An effort to discredit Justice Gorsuch is overhyped and misleading”: Dan McLaughlin has this essay online at National Review.

“Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Count of Some Pennsylvania Provisional Ballots; Republicans had asked the justices to pause a state court order requiring election boards to count provisional ballots by voters whose mail-in ballots were deemed invalid”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

And Justin Jouvenal and Colby Itkowitz of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania voters to fix faulty absentee ballots; The Supreme Court cleared the way for Pennsylvania voters to submit provisional ballots as a remedy for improperly cast absentee ballots in the presidential election.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Undated mail ballots won’t be counted in next week’s election, Pa. Supreme Court rules; In a scathing opinion, one justice chastised Commonwealth Court for elevating the issue so close to Election Day”: Jeremy Roebuck and Katie Bernard of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

Today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consisted of a per curiam order and two concurring statements (here and here).

“Abortion politics draw money to once-sleepy state Supreme Court races; National groups are spending millions of dollars to shape high courts in states including Michigan, Montana and Ohio”: Patrick Svitek of The Washington Post has this report.

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Battles over abortion access fuel US state supreme court races.”

“The Supreme Court Is Making People Fight For Marriage Equality Again; People don’t trust a post-Dobbs Supreme Court to protect their rights, so they’re trying to protect themselves”: Madiba K. Dennie has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Anti-abortion activists ask justices to overrule ban on expressive activity outside clinics”: Kalvis Golde has this Petitions of the Week post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“The Conservative Strategy to Ban Abortion Nationwide: A local referendum in Texas is part of a long-term effort to block abortions through the courts.” Rachel Monroe has this Letter from the Southwest online at The New Yorker.

“A Texas Judge’s Fight to Keep a High Profile Case Out of His Court; A battle over a new rule to limit credit card late fees has spiraled into a larger skirmish about how much power litigants should have to maneuver their cases into friendly courtrooms”: Stacy Cowley of The New York Times has this report.