“California Tries to Regulate 50 States; The Supreme Court considers the limits of state law and interstate commerce”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“UNC once barred Black students. Now it’s fighting for affirmative action.” Nick Anderson of The Washington Post has this report.

“Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines; Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash”: Emily Bazelon has this cover story in today’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

“Judge Ho’s Yale Clerk Ban Is ‘Ugly,’ Third Circuit Judge Says”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg News has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Judicial Notice (10.08.22): Game On; The Onion’s awesome amicus brief, updates on Judge Ho v. Yale Law, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The surprisingly high stakes in a Supreme Court case about bacon; National Pork Producers Council v. Ross asks just how far one state can go to change life in the other 49 states”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And in yesterday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Robert Alt had an op-ed titled “Ohio Pig Farmers Didn’t Get a Vote on California’s Proposition 12; Hollywood busybodies seem to think they know better than Midwesterners how to raise hogs.”

“The Onion makes a serious point. Police violated Ohio man’s rights for mocking them. Anthony Novak’s case demonstrates how qualified immunity thwarts constitutional rights — in this instance, permitting police to arrest, jail and prosecute a man for making fun of them on social media.” Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell have this essay online at USA Today.