The morning read for Wednesday, April 3

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

• U.S. Supreme Court denies stay in Central WA redistricting case (Claire Withycombe, The Seattle Times)
• Top Democrats won’t join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat (Sahil Kapur & Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
• Peter Navarro makes long-shot Supreme Court plea to avoid more prison time (John Fritze & Devan Cole, CNN)
• The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends (Stephen Breyer, The New York Times)
• For the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court (Mehdi Hasan, The Guardian)