The morning read for Tuesday, August 1

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

• The Secret History of Gun Rights: How Lawmakers Armed the N.R.A. (Mike McIntire, The New York Times)
• The Supreme Court Is on Recess, but the Shadow Docket Never Sleeps (Jimmy Hoover, The National Law Journal)
• The Supreme Court’s War on Novelty (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
• Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Perfected the Art of Originalism Jujitsu (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• A Defense of the Supreme Court (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)