“Plessy, Ferguson united”: The Topeka Capital-Journal has this news update.

“Public still waiting for ex-county judges’ court date”: Today’s edition of The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania contains an article that begins, “Laurene Transue is looking forward to the day when former Luzerne County judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan appear in court to face charges related to the juvenile justice scandal that ensnared her daughter and thousands of other youths.”

“ACLU May Reverse Course on Campaign Finance Limits After Supreme Court Ruling”: Joseph Goldstein has this article today at the web site of The New York Sun.

The Christian Science Monitor has reports headlined “‘Fighting’ Obama hits Supreme Court over campaign finance; The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down a 2002 campaign finance reform law ‘strikes at democracy itself,’ Obama says in his weekly address; Republicans say ‘free speech’ — even in the form of money — strengthens democracy” and “Campaign finance ruling: Can Congress do anything? The Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling was based on the US Constitution; This makes it particularly hard for Congress to do anything but modify campaign finance law — public disclosure provisions, for example.”

And the Week in Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article headlined “Does Corporate Money Lead to Political Corruption?”

“Pa. jurists’ focus: Fixing city courts; The state Supreme Court wants changes made and an accounting of why so many cases fail.” This front page article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“No secession vote for Alaska, state Supreme Court rules; Consultant had sought to change the constitution”: Yesterday’s edition of The Anchorage Daily News contained an article that begins, “The Alaska Supreme Court has rejected an Anchorage man’s effort to change the Alaska Constitution so that he could call a vote for secession from the United States.”

You can access the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of Alaska at this link.

“U.S. Supreme Court: Showing the naughty bits at the airport?” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.