The morning read for Thursday, March 9

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

• U.S. Justice Dept, SEC are no-shows in Slack direct listing case at Supreme Court (Alison Frankel, Reuters)
• Supreme Court Justice Barrett could be swing vote on Biden student loan forgiveness plan (Annie Nova, CNBC)
• Impending Texas abortion decision could be headed toward Supreme Court (Marcia Coyle, National Constitution Center)
• The Last Justice Standing (Adam Feldman, Empirical SCOTUS)
• Supreme Court justices’ financial status has no bearing on legality of student debt relief (Adam Carrington, The Chicago Tribune)