The morning read for Friday, Sept. 13

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

• U.S. Naval Academy, affirmative action foe square off at Baltimore trial (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
• Affirmative Action Was Banned. What Happened Next Was Confusing. (Anemona Hartocollis & Stephanie Saul, The New York Times)
• The inside story of how Sandra Day OConnor rebuffed pressure from Scalia and others to overturn Roe v. Wade (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• Poll: Americans favor Supreme Court term limits, oppose more justices (Tobi Raji, The Washington Post)
• Engendering Support for Supreme Court Reform Is a Matter of Gender (Tom Rogers & Susan Del Percio, Newsweek)