The morning read for Tuesday, Aug. 2

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

• Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining — but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics (Eve Ringsmuth, The Conversation)
• Google, Apple back affirmative action in Harvard case (Maia Spoto & Kimberly Robinson, Bloomberg)
• Democrats’ approval of Supreme Court at record-low 13% (Mohamed Younis, Gallup)
• Moore v. Harper and Marc Elias’s curious idea of ‘democracy’ (David B. Riven Jr. & Jason Snead, The Wall Street Journal)
• The Supreme Court wasn’t always the final arbiter of the Constitution (Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath, The Washington Post)