“Obama’s recess appointments an abuse of power”: Law professor Jonathan Turley has this op-ed today in USA Today.

Turley one of three witnesses who testified today before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing entitled “Executive Overreach: The President’s Unprecedented ‘Recess’ Appointment.” You can access video of the hearing via this link.

In coverage of the hearing, Main Justice reports that “Legal Challenge to Recess Appointments Likely, Experts Say.”

“Federal appeals court criticizes U.S. attorney’s office for Arizona”: Cronkite News has this report.

Today’s edition of Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports that “Panel Rejects Bid to Remove Prosecutor’s Name From Opinion; No ‘Shield of Anonymity’ for Wrongdoing Lawyers, Judges Say.”

And Ginny LaRoe of The Recorder reports that “Circuit Takes Hard Line When Asked to Go Easy on Prosecutor.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit order appears at this link.

“Senate confirms Judge Adalberto Jordan to the federal appeals court”: The Miami Herald has this blog post.

You can access the official U.S. Senate roll call tally at this link.

Update: The Associated Press reports that “Senate confirms Cuban-born judge to 11th Circuit.”

“Child at center of high court fight over custody gets closure”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

“The highway, the truck stop and the Supreme Court”: This article appears today in The Toronto Globe and Mail.

“Ohio justice rejects death penalty law he wrote”: The Associated Press has this report.

“NYT reporter James Risen asks court to protect sources”: At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a blog post that begins, “Lawyers for New York Times reporter James Risen asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to uphold a lower court’s rulings that federal prosecutors should not be able to question him about most details of his confidential sources for a 2006 book that described a botched Central Intelligence Agency program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.”

“U.S. Senate to vote Wednesday on Miami federal judge”: The Miami Herald has a blog post that begins, “The Senate is expected to vote at noon Wednesday to confirm Adalberto Jose Jordan, a Miami federal judge who was confirmed unanimously last year by the Senate Judiciary committee and who has the support of Florida Sens. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican.”

And today in The Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank has an op-ed entitled “Does the GOP care about Latino voters?”