“Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director; In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet”: Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha, Josh Dawsey, and Jack Gillum of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Supreme Court Extends Order Allowing Limits on Food Stamp Payments; The justices allowed the Trump administration to withhold full benefits for two more days while Congress worked to advance a government funding bill”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Mark Berman of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring full SNAP payments; The Trump administration has twice asked the Supreme Court in recent days to stop other judges from forcing it to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.”

And Lydia Wheeler and Sabrina Siddiqui of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court Extends Pause on SNAP Funding Order; Brief extension comes as government shutdown near a resolution in Congress.”

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

“The Supreme Court Just Took a Scary Voting Case That Has Trump Salivating. He Might Be Disappointed.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Supreme Court’s Silence on Gay Marriage Speaks Volumes”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Conservatives Take a Victory Lap at Federalist Society Event”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Jordan Fischer, Suzanne Monyak, and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law have a report headlined “‘CrossFit Meets Shooting’ in Judge VanDyke’s Off-Bench Hobby.”

And in commentary, online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Barbara McQuade has an essay titled “This Justice Department Is Redefining Who the Enemy Is.”