Stranger Than Fiction

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• Trump Says He Will Nominate a Woman to Supreme Court This Week “Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the second GOP senator to oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election, joining Susan Collins of Maine.”

• Amy Coney Barrett Is Again a Top Contender for Supreme Court Nomination “The 48-year-old member of the Chicago-based Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a reputation for possessing a first-rate legal mind—and solidly conservative views.”

• Biden Leads Trump Among Latino Voters, Poll Shows “The Democratic presidential nominee holds a significant lead over President Trump among registered Latino voters, garnering 62% of support, compared with Mr. Trump’s 26%, according to a new WSJ/NBC/Telemundo poll.”

• Fresh Surge in U.S. Covid-19 Cases Is Feared as Death Toll Nears 200,00 “The U.S. reported 39,844 new coronavirus cases Sunday and was closing in on 200,000 deaths, amid fears that the country was heading for a new wave of infections.”

• Pandemic Threatens to Widen Racial Homeownership Gap “The housing market has led the recovery from the pandemic-induced economic downturn as Americans have rushed to buy homes, but some analysts warn it may widen the longstanding gap in homeownership between Black and white Americans.”

• ‘Succession’ Wins Best Drama at Emmys; ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Sweeps Comedy Awards

WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO

• 🎧 LISTEN: Checking Out of Hotel 166As coronavirus spread through homeless shelters this spring, many cities moved people to hotels to keep them safe. A group of doctors running one hotel in Chicago saw an opportunity: With new funding, they tried to find housing for the hotel residents in under four months. WSJ's Joe Barrett has been following their effort, and Dr. Tom Huggett talks about what it took to meet the deadline.

THE COMMENT

“Barrett dissented in a case in which the majority blocked the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, which excludes the entry of legal immigrants who might rely on federal benefits. She joined a ruling that job applicants cannot use age-discrimination law to sue over hiring practices that have a discriminatory impact on older workers.On the other hand, she found that a male butcher who was subjected to harassment and unwanted touching by male co-workers could sue under federal anti-discrimination law. “The shop was a mixed-sex workplace, and only men were groped and taunted,” Barrett wrote. “Because men were treated differently from women at [the store], a reasonable jury could conclude that [the plaintiff] was tormented because of his sex.” There is much more to plumb in Barrett’s writings, as Trump weighs his selection. But a quick review suggests that conservatives should be assuaged, and liberals alarmed, by the Barrett record in her first years as a judge.” - Ruth Marcus

THE STRANGEST

• The rare plant market has gone bonkers, with two small pieces of one plant going for $2,000

THE AV ROOM