WHAT WE'RE READING
The morning read for Thursday, August 7

By Zachary Shemtob
on Aug 7, 2025

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
- Paul Ryan: Supreme Court likely to restrict Trump’s emergency tariff authority (Tobias Burns, The Hill)
- Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary (Gary Fields and Jack Dura, AP News)
- “Virtually All of Us Are Committed” to SCOTUS’s Ethics Code, Justice Sotomayor Tells Audience in Zurich (Fix the Court)
- How Feeder Judges ‘Gatekeep’ Supreme Court Clerkships (Ryan Boysen, Law360)
- A new Supreme Court case asks whether children still have First Amendment rights (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
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