The morning read for Monday, May 19

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

• Courting Controversy: Justices’ side commentaries undermine the Supreme Court (Jonathan Turley, The Hill)
• Supreme Court Retains Block on Using Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
• The Supreme Court just got an important police violence case right (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
• ‘Spaghetti against the wall?’ Trump tests legal strategies as judges block his policies (Bart Jansen, USA Today)
• Alito and Roberts take stock as they near their third decade on the bench (Joan Biskupic, CNN)

Coming up: On Thursday, May 22, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinions.