The morning read for Friday, January 12

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:

• Americans divided on how SCOTUS should handle Trump ballot access: POLL (Gary Langer, ABC News)
• Biden administration tells Supreme Court Texas is barring federal governments access to part of US-Mexico border (Devan Cole, CNN Politics)
• Why Sam Alito asked about tasting drugs at Supreme Court argument (Jordan Rubin, MSNBC)
• To curb military sexual assault, Biden needs help from Clarence Thomas (Chandler Cole, The Hill)
• Supreme Court will consider overruling landmark Chevron deference decision in a fishy case (Mark Walsh, ABA Journal)