“White House stands ground on high court criticism”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Justice Stevens Keeping ‘Options Open’ on Retirement”: Tony Mauro has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Was life sentence justice for one just starting life?” The Lincoln Journal Star today contains this article reporting on “the only Nebraskan serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for a crime other than a homicide committed as a juvenile.”

“What the Supreme Court sees in Snyder v. Phelps”: This article appears today in The York (Pa.) Sunday News.

Yesterday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contained an editorial entitled “Protecting the vile: Distasteful protests by a fringe religious group at military funerals are still protected by the 1st Amendment.”

Yesterday’s edition of The Baltimore Sun contained an editorial entitled “Free speech is paramount: Everyone has a right to express their views, even when they’re deplorable.”

And today in The Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Michael Smerconish has an op-ed entitled “Free (and hateful) speech vs. the right to gather: Justices should rule against a Kansas church group that protested at a fallen Marine’s funeral.”

“Your Reality TV”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “In a new poll, more than 60 percent of respondents said televising Supreme Court proceedings would be good for democracy. We agree, but the court seems determined to keep its work out of the public’s eye.”

“Critics: Military trial of terror suspects could open cases to legal uncertainty.” This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Justices Will Prevail”: Jeff Shesol, author of the new book “Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court,” has this op-ed today in The New York Times.

“Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ group; The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

And in the Week in Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak has an article headlined “Tea-ing Up the Constitution.”

“U.S. Supreme Court: Will liberal Kagan find a home in high court?” UPI has a report that begins, “As the drama builds to Justice John Paul Stevens’ inevitable retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, one name keeps popping up as a probable successor — Elena Kagan, solicitor general of the United States.”