“Doubts About Mandate for Bush, GOP”: Monday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain this news analysis, which includes mention of judicial filibusters and the “nuclear option.”

“Frist: Showdown with Democrats over court nominees may be ‘inevitable.'” This article will appear Monday in USA Today.

And Monday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain an article headlined “Frist Protest at Princeton Is Lesson in Art of the Filibuster.”

“Judicial Nominees, Filibusters and the Media”: This commentary (RealPlayer required) appeared on Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR‘s “News & Notes with Ed Gordon.”

“A ‘nuclear’ attack on the Constitution: Changing the Senate’s filibuster rules a dangerous option.” Law Professor Geoffrey R. Stone has this op-ed today in The Chicago Tribune.

And this past Wednesday, while work had me on the road, The Washington Post published an editorial entitled “Nuclear Deterrence.”

“Group to Launch Ad Campaign to Help GOP”: The Associated Press reports here that “An organization with strong Republican ties intends to spend $1.5 million on television commercials over next two weeks to help Senate GOP leaders in a showdown over President Bush’s judicial nominees.”

“Pat Robertson continues religion-based attacks on judiciary, Democrats”: Dick Polman will have this article Monday in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And ABC News today has posted online a written report headlined “Angry at Rulings, Some Judge the Judges; Unpopular Decisions, Personal Grudges Bring Judges Under Fire — Figuratively and Literally.”

Available online from The Associated Press: Now available are articles headlined “Mass. Court to Address Gay Marriage Issue” and “Inmates Use Intermediaries to Go Online.”

“Court’s Secrets In New Light; Documents Show How Cases Were Concealed”: The Hartford Courant today contains an article that begins, “The state’s judicial branch began an organized effort in the 1990s to hide the existence of some lawsuits involving the rich and famous, years before court officials claimed those so-called super-sealed cases were merely the results of informal decisions by a handful of judges, just-released documents show.”

“Who gets to see the e-mail of the deceased?” This article will appear Monday in The Christian Science Monitor.

Philadelphia Phillies 8, Florida Marlins 6: Had the pleasure of viewing today’s Phillies game with my son. The box score is here.

“Levy Family Still Hoping For Answers”: The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, “Susan Levy is about to get back some of her daughter’s belongings from police, small tokens from the young woman’s life. But what she really wants are answers to a puzzle that police have yet to solve: Who killed Chandra Levy?”

“Pledge plaintiff Newdow sings, lectures about ‘under God'”: The current issue of The Wesleyan Argus contains this article.

“Is Hatch’s court fury hypocrisy? Clinton years: When he was Judiciary Committee chairman, many of his nominees never received an up-or-down vote.” This article appears today in The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that “Anti-filibuster ad campaigns target senator.”

Newsday reports that “Dems push back; Finally accepting themselves as being in the minority, the ‘free spirits’ are showing some muscle, results.”

The Miami Herald contains an editorial entitled “Filibuster a hedge against majority stampede; Compromise is the best way to get things done in Congress.”

The Anchorage Daily News contains an editorial entitled “Stand up, senator: Lisa Murkowski resists undue pressure from the right.”

The San Antonio Express-News contains an editorial entitled “In religious rhetoric, some on ugly path.”

In The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has an op-ed entitled “Fairness and a fresh start on judges.”

And in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chris Satullo has an op-ed entitled “Attempting to tip the scales of the court.”