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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 "Texas Voting Rights Act Case Will Be Felt In Some California Counties": Lawrence Hurley has this article today in The Daily Journal of California. Posted at 08:44 PM by Howard Bashman "Holder: Law not always followed in terror fight." The Associated Press has this report. You can access the prepared text of the Attorney General's remarks by clicking here. "An Argument For More Female Justices": This audio segment (RealPlayer required) featuring Dahlia Lithwick appeared on Monday's broadcast of NPR's "Talk of the Nation. Posted at 10:50 AM by Howard Bashman "In Minnesota, a Battle Without End for a Senate Seat": This article appears today in The New York Times. USA Today reports today that "Ruling puts end in sight in Minn. Senate fight; Coleman appeal called 'long shot.'" The Minneapolis Star Tribune contains articles headlined "Recount's next stop: Minnesota Supreme Court; The state Supreme Court is where Coleman will take his appeal of the election outcome" and "Senate recount ruling has 2 sides in a tizzy; A decision giving Al Franken the Senate seat didn't just trigger a Norm Coleman appeal, it unleashed a flurry of fresh emotion." And The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that "Partisans in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race gear up for next stage; Coleman, Franken camps turn up rhetoric ahead of Supreme Court appeal." "An Impressive First Nominee": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "President Obama has done well with his first judicial nomination -- David Hamilton, a well-respected federal district court judge in Indiana -- for the Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit." And yesterday, that newspaper contained an editorial entitled "The A.B.A. and Judicial Nominees." "Judge Posner Wrote What? A leading free-market conservative concludes that CEO compensation practices are flawed." Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has this essay online at Slate. Posted at 08:30 AM by Howard Bashman "The Problem of Supreme Court Justices' Remaining on the Bench Too Long: Although It's a Genuine Concern, Recently-Suggested Reforms Are More Problematic Than the Status Quo." Edward Lazarus has this essay online at FindLaw. Posted at 08:27 AM by Howard Bashman "Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos; Top Officials at Odds Over Whether to Withhold Some Details on Interrogation Tactics": This article appears today in The Wall Street Journal. Posted at 08:25 AM by Howard Bashman "Attorneys assumed phony lawyer from Duluth was a colleague": The Associated Press has this report. Posted at 08:15 AM by Howard Bashman "Al Jazeera: Guantanamo captive called us to protest guards' treatment." Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report. Posted at 08:10 AM by Howard Bashman "Justice Roberts at NCCU law school event": This article appears today in The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina. Posted at 08:04 AM by Howard Bashman "Court grants John Demjanjuk reprieve from deportation; plane was ready to leave for Germany": The Cleveland Plain Dealer contains this article today. And The Christian Science Monitor has a report headlined "In Demjanjuk's Ukrainian hometown, memories linger of an infamous son; Deportation of the accused death-camp guard was stayed Tuesday." In this post from yesterday, I linked to stay-related documents filed yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. "Nacchio enters Pa. prison for six-year term; The former Qwest CEO may get bail if the Supreme Court decides in June to review his insider-trading conviction": This article appears today in The Denver Post. Posted at 07:54 AM by Howard Bashman  
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