The morning read for Wednesday, June 12

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

• Supreme Court has a lot of work to do and little time to do it with a sizable case backlog (Mark Sherman & Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press)
• Explosive cases flow to US Supreme Court from ‘bold’ regional court (Andrew Chung, Reuters)
• Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will block Democrats’ effort to unanimously pass Supreme Court ethics bill (Zo Richards, Sahil Kapur, & Frank Thorp V, NBC News)
• Samuel Alito, caught on tape, reinforces why people are skeptical of the Supreme Court (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• Supreme Courts Greater Revision Transparency Gets Little Notice (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 13 and Friday, June 14, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. Well be live at 9:45 a.m. EDT.