The morning read for Friday, Dec. 13

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

• US Supreme Court should avoid climate change cases, Biden administration says (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
• Supreme Court begins online lottery for seating, upending D.C. ritual (Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
• Biden is on track to appoint more federal judges of color than any other president (Char Adams, NBC News)
• Don’t want to spend days waiting in line to attend a Supreme Court case? Now you may not have to. (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Rule of 3 #1: All About United States v. Skrmetti (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)