“Mounting Tensions Escalate Into Violence During Raid at Guantanamo Prison”: Charlie Savage will have this article Sunday in The New York Times.
And Ryan J. Reilly of The Huffington Post has an article headlined “Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Guards Fire Four Non-Lethal Shots, Force Detainees Into Single Cells.”
“Antonin Scalia’s anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him: The justice has made his views on gay relationships painfully clear; But I know from personal experience that poisonous language like Scalia’s can be devastatingly hurtful.” Princeton University freshman Duncan Hosie will have this op-ed Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
“Hacktivists as Gadflies”: Peter Ludlow has this interesting post today at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.
“Troops forcibly move hunger strikers at Guantanamo into cells”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this news update.
And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Shots fired amid violence at Guantanamo Bay.”
“Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays”: Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain this article, the first in a three-part series titled “Justice Denied: Inside the Bronx’s Dysfunctional Court System.”
“Gov. Jerry Brown vows fight with judges over prisons; Gov. Jerry Brown challenges judges’ rebuke, saying he will carry the battle over crowding to the Supreme Court”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
And The Sacramento Bee reports today that “Jerry Brown pledges to take prison crowding case to Supreme Court.”
“In SCOTUS Rarity, Orrick Associate to Handle Oral Arguments in High Court Case”: Claire Zillman of The Am Law Daily has this report.
“Consultant Recants in Chevron Pollution Case in Ecuador”: This article appears today in The New York Times.
“Chief Justice Roberts presides over inaugural moot court competition”: The Pioneer Log, the student newspaper of Lewis & Clark College, posted this article online yesterday afternoon.
And in related news, today’s edition of The Oregonian reports that “Chief Justice John Roberts’ visit to Lewis & Clark College sparks a press freedom controversy.”
Yoo can’t go to Russia: The Associated Press reports that “Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US move.”
Update: In other coverage, Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article headlined “Russia Bars 18 Americans in Tit for Tat on Rights.”