The U.S. Supreme Court has issued the third and last of its summer orders lists. It's pretty routine stuff. A fellow named Alan Ernest, who tries to get into every abortion case, continues to be the only person regularly denied leave to file an amicus brief.

Discussion of the decline in the number of female law clerks continues. Links are available at SCOTUSblog here and here. Bench Memos has some posts under the heading "Vapors from Greenhouse." Personally, I am less concerned with the sex and ethnic mix than I am with the high court's dependence on people of limited maturity and experience, drawn mostly from a handful of schools.