“Suit against Democrats dismissed; Floridian wanting state’s delegates seated will try again”: This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The St. Petersburg Times reports today that “Tampa activist’s case to seat Democratic delegates is dismissed but still alive.”
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that “Suit challenging Democrats over Florida primary returned to lower court.”
And The Tallahassee Democrat reports that “Court rejects appeal to count votes.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.
“Refusal Keeps Terrorism Convict in Prison; Former Professor Fights Attempts to Force His Testimony Against Muslim Charities”: The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, “Former university professor Sami al-Arian wants to finish serving his prison sentence for a terrorism-related crime next month so that he can be deported to the Palestinian territories. But the Bush administration is threatening to keep him behind bars until he does something he has steadfastly refused to do: testify before a grand jury investigating allegations that Muslim charities aided terrorism organizations.”
“Iraq Detention Case Heads to High Court; Jailed American Citizens Say They Have Right to Access U.S. Legal System”: Josh White and Robert Barnes will have this article Sunday in The Washington Post.
“The Supreme Court and Indecency”: Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain this editorial.
Today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled “Supreme Court takes on TV’s dirty words; The FCC’s rules to shield kids from bad language are senseless when circumventing them is child’s play.”
And today’s edition of The Rocky Mountain News contains an editorial entitled “Broadcast TV and ‘fleeting obscenities.’”
“Mo’ Money, Mo’ Justice: Justice Maureen O’Connor says campaign money doesn’t affect her rulings; Her record says otherwise.” This article appears in the current issue of the Scene of Cleveland, Ohio.
And today in The Wall Street Journal, James Sample has an op-ed entitled “Justice for Sale: How judicial elections help breed corruption.”
“Vermont Court to decide if food is punishment”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “Savory it isn’t: It’s made of whole wheat bread, non-dairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes. To prison officials, it’s a complete meal. To inmates, it’s a food so awful, they’d rather go hungry than eat it. Now, in the latest legal battle over the prison cafeteria standard known as Nutraloaf, the Vermont Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether it’s punishment or merely behavior modification.”
“High court to consider self-representation”: At the web site of USA Today, you can access an article that begins, “A shoe shoplifting incident that escalated into a lunchtime shooting in downtown Indianapolis nearly a decade ago is now the basis for the Supreme Court to decide how much latitude states have to determine if a defendant is capable of representing himself at trial. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Wednesday in an Indiana case in which a Marion County judge decided a defendant with a history of mental illness was competent to stand trial, but not to represent himself as he requested.”
“Loophole in a liquor law puzzles experts; Businesses may not be liable for selling to an intoxicated minor”: Mary Flood has this article today in The Houston Chronicle.
“Clarence Thomas: Mr. Constitution.” Today in The Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey have this commentary reporting on their recent interview of Justice Clarence Thomas.
“Timely decision: Overturned Louisiana murder conviction should send pointed message to Harris County prosecutors.” The Houston Chronicle contains this editorial today.
And CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has a “CourtWatch” column headlined “The Book Of Clarence Thomas: Court’s Only Black Justice Won’t Oppose Legal Racism In Death Penalty Case.”
“Highest Lawman Prepares to Meet Highest Court”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.
And The Wall Street Journal reports today that “Mukasey to Jump The Bar Tuesday.”
“To Keep and Bear Arms”: Charles Lane has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.
And today in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rowland Nethaway has an op-ed entitled “Nine justices parsing 27 words.”
“Blunt submits Supreme Court brief supporting death for child rape”: Today’s edition of The Kansas City Star contains an article that begins, “Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the death penalty for child rapists.”
