The morning read for Monday, August 11

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

• Prosecutors may appeal to US Supreme Court on 1979 missing child Etan Patz case (Jennifer Peltz, AP News)
• Supreme Court approval rating sinks to a new low, poll finds. What caused shift? (Brendan Rascius, The Miami Herald)
• Will the U.S. Supreme Court Free Ghislaine Maxwell? (Elie Honig, New York Magazine)
• ‘The courts are helpless’: Inside the Trump administration’s steady erosion of judicial power (Katelyn Polantz, CNN)
• In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)