The morning read for Thursday, April 27

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

• Supreme Court Wary of Windfall in Seizure of Condo for Unpaid Taxes (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• ‘Inside baseball’: Critics say academia has ‘troubling’ influence with the Supreme Court (Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News)
• Supreme Courts new ethics declaration stops short of concrete action (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
• Ex-US appeals judge says Supreme Court needs stronger ethics code (Jacqueline Thomsen, Reuters)
• Whats Going On with Samuel Alito? (Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker)