The morning read for Friday, December 15

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

• Inside the exclusive world of Supreme Court clerks driving America’s legal controversies (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• What Sandra Day O’Connor Got Wrong (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)
• Is Compelled Decryption Heading to the Supreme Court? (Orin Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy)
• Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade (Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• Supreme Court leaves Illinois semiautomatic gun ban in place (Nina Totenberg, NPR)