The morning read for Friday, March 24

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

• The Secret Joke at the Heart of the Harvard Affirmative-Action Case (Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker)
• Ethical no man’s land: can the US supreme court be trusted to police itself? (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian)
• The Conservative Legal Movement Is Coming For Public Defenders Next (Jay Willis, Balls & Strikes)
• J&J to seek U.S. Supreme Court review on unit’s bankruptcy (Dietrich Knauth, Reuters)
• The U.S. Supreme Court Should Vacate and Remand in Moore v. Harper (Richard Bernstein, Election Law Blog)