“Hearing for Controversial Court Nominee Postponed Amid Fight Over Health Care”: FOXNews.com has this report.

And The Hill has a news update headlined “Senate Republicans block committee hearings again.”

“A Hearing to Define ‘Mainstream’ Judicial Views”: Tom Goldstein of “SCOTUSblog” has this commentary at “The Huffington Post.”

And at The Daily Caller, Ilya Shapiro and Evan Turgeon have an essay entitled “Do you have a right to health care? Judicial nominee Liu thinks so.”

“Unsound and Unfit: Goodwin Liu is President Obama’s worst judicial nominee . . . so far.” Edward Whelan has this essay today at National Review Online.

“Hearing for 9th Circuit Nominee on Hold”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post that begins, “The Senate Judiciary Committee has suspended a highly anticipated confirmation hearing for Goodwin Liu, nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, because of a little-used rule that constrains when Senate committees may meet.”

And Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has issued a news release headlined “Republican Objections Now Stall Even Committee Progress.”

“Presumed Innocent? Obama’s lawyers were smeared–but guess what, so were Bush’s.” Benjamin Wittes has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Labor Decisions at Risk as Justices Struggle With NLRB Authority”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Breyer and Scalia Take Their Road Show Inside”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Breyer, Scalia explain why they often disagree”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.