Inside the powerful group remaking America’s courts

The Atlantic calls Amy Coney Barrett a “luminary” of the conservative legal movement and traces her rise to the Federalist Society, which has had a major influence on federal judge selection during Republican administrations. Stat and BuzzFeed provide some context to two recently paused COVID-19-related clinical trials — and explain why these pauses indicate the system is working.  The Washington Post‘s Voices From the Pandemic series features the story of Tony Green, who thought COVID-19 was overblown until he got sick and lost a close family member to the virus. CNN explains why voters are often not allowed to wear clothes that contain political messaging when they go to the polls.