“Leaker of draft opinion still unknown as Supreme Court readies for new term”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Public Legitimacy Crisis Has Arrived; Americans’ antipathy toward the high court is deepening — and for the first time, a slim majority favors expansion”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Rebuffed at U.S. Supreme Court, Delaware judicial protester gets OK for new lawsuit”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“The ‘shadow docket’ further erodes the Supreme Court’s legitimacy”: Law professor Steve Vladeck has this essay online at CNN.

“The Supreme Court and Race: A Sordid History is About to Repeat Itself.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The End of Affirmative Action Is the Supreme Court’s Next Big Gift to the Conservative Legal Movement; Right-wing activists have been campaigning for decades to prevent schools from considering students’ race in the admissions process; With this Court, they have their best shot yet at succeeding”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The January 6 committee has its sights on Ginni Thomas. She should be worried. The spouse of a sitting supreme court justice allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election. It’s hard to say which looks worse — the conflicts of interest, or the possibility that she aided a would-be insurrection.” Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Guardian (UK).

“Will U.S. Supreme Court hear another case from Oklahoma linked to McGirt ruling?” Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report.

“NC case at Supreme Court ‘should keep every American up at night,’ ex-AG Eric Holder says”: Will Doran of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

“NYU Law Forum — Supreme Court (P)review”: NYU School of Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Judges Are Playing ‘Calvinball’ With the Constitution Because They’re Mad Trump Was Banned From Twitter; Conservative Fifth Circuit jurists took a sledgehammer to the First Amendment — using incoherent logic, incorrect law-reading, and fake history”: Mike Masnick has this essay online at The Daily Beast.

“The Supreme Court’s new term could be even more consequential than its last one; The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Justices Urged to Weigh Social Media Laws Amid Appeals Split”: Jennifer Kay of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Supreme Court Is About to Display Its Power Imbalance Again; The justices begin a new term on Oct. 3, and cases involving the Clean Water Act, LGBTQ protections, voting rights, and affirmative action could be as controversial as the last round”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Top State Judges Make a Rare Plea in a Momentous Supreme Court Election Case; In a surprising filing, state chief justices opposed an argument pressed by Republicans — that state legislatures may set federal election rules unconstrained by state constitutions”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.