The morning read for Friday, August 8

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

• Record Party Gaps in Job Approval of Supreme Court, Congress (Jeffrey M. Jones and Sarah Hogenboom-Jones, Gallup)
• Fourth court blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
• Carville: Democrats have to add states, expand Supreme Court to ‘save democracy’ (Ashleigh Fields, The Hill)
• The Most Powerful Dissents in the 2024–2025 Supreme Court Term (Adam Feldman, Legalytics)
• Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It’d be unprecedented (Hansi Lo Wang, NPR)