The morning read for Monday, October 2

Good morning! Today is the first day of the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term and the first day of the October session. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Heres the Monday morning read:

• Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term (Nina Totenberg, NPR)
• For Supreme Court, ethics have become the elephant in the courtroom (Robert Barnes & Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
• Major tests await conservative US Supreme Court in new term (John Kruzel, Reuters) 
• Rightwing activist helps fund predatory payday lenders in supreme court case (Martin Pengelly, The Guardian) 
• He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court (Kimberly Wehle, Politico)