The morning read for Tuesday, August 12

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

• Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• RNC Urges Supreme Court to Stay Out of Mississippi Mail Ballot Deadline Case (Yunior Rivas, Democracy Docket)
• For Hopeful Supreme Court Litigants, It Helps to Have Friends—And Lots of Them (Jimmy Hoover, The National Law Journal)
• Don’t fear the Supreme Court’s shadow docket (Conn Carroll, The Washington Examiner)
• “Federalizing” D.C. (Steve Vladeck, One First)