On the Case podcast: Even as the furor over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation continues to build, the Supreme Court is trying to conduct business as usual. Kannon Shanmugam tells Alison Frankel what it’s like to prepare cases when you don’t know who will be on the court, and how the vacant seat could shape the types of cases it hears. https://reut.rs/2yd577f

An election in which a rival political party takes control of Congress isn’t rare but a big wave election is. Reuters looks at the signals driving expectations of a wave – of either color - in the midterm elections on November 6 https://reut.rs/2NR7EyB