The morning read for Friday, August 1

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

• Justice Kavanaugh defends Supreme Court’s terse emergency docket orders (John Fritze, CNN)
• Trump’s tariffs get frosty reception at federal appeals court (Kyle Cheney and Doug Palmer, Politico)
• Florida death row inmate Edward Zakrzewski has been executed (Tom McLaughlin, Pensacola News Journal)
• Someone Is Defying the Supreme Court, but It Isn’t Trump (Adrian Vermeule, The New York Times)
• Whose Judicial Overreach? (Steve Vladeck, One First)