“2nd Circuit Judge Calabresi on Former Student and Current Colleague Sotomayor”: law.com has this report.

“Congress begins impeachment of Judge Kent”: The Houston Chronicle has this news update.

In commentary available online at Slate: Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Sotomayor’s Manly Man Ruling: Her bold ruling in favor of a man who claimed sex discrimination.”

And John Dickerson has essays entitled “More Better Judging: The White House’s attempt to end the debate about a Sotomayor speech will end up prolonging it” and “Sonia Goes to Washington: Sotomayor endures a marathon meet-and-greet in the Senate.”

“Where to put Guantanamo prisoners? They’re welcome in Colorado; Residents of Florence say they don’t mind the supermax prison outside town; And a few more terrorism suspects there wouldn’t bother them.” This article will appear Thursday in The Los Angeles Times.

“California Supreme Court considers suit over workplace spying; The justices appear unlikely to allow employers to spy on workers with hidden cameras, but are skeptical that two women who found a surveillance camera in their office had suffered serious harm”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

“Gritty First Job Shaped Nominee; Years as N.Y. Prosecutor Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment”: This article will appear Thursday in The Washington Post.

Thursday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times will contain an article headlined “Sotomayor a racist? Newt Gingrich takes it back; The former House speaker had joined Rush Limbaugh in calling the Supreme Court nominee a racist; Gingrich now says his words were ‘perhaps too strong and too direct,’ but Limbaugh stands firm.”

And Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “Fearing backlash, GOP tones down rhetoric on Sotomayor.”

“NRA asks Court to expand 2d Amendment”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

You can access the cert. petition at this link (via “The Volokh Conspiracy“).

In posts of interest from “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.” David Ingram has a post titled “Property Rights Case a Sleeper for Sotomayor?”

And Tony Mauro has a post titled “Sotomayor’s Ex Expounds on Bilski Case.”

“S.F.’s blast at Vatican was legal, court says”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a news update that begins, “San Francisco didn’t cross into constitutionally forbidden territory of government hostility to religion when the Board of Supervisors denounced a Vatican order to Catholic Charities not to place adoptive children with same-sex couples, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Federal judge tosses warrantless wiretap cases”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal judge has tossed out more than three dozen lawsuits filed against the nation’s telecommunications companies for allegedly taking part in the government’s e-mail and telephone eavesdropping program that was done without court approval.”

And at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post titled “Judge Tosses Telecom Spy Suits.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California at this link.

Update: At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Challenges to NSA wiretapping shut down.”

“Criminal charges dropped against Wecht, but animosity remains”: Jason Cato has this article today in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article headlined “Wecht deep in debt, but delighted.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Feds drop all charges against celebrity coroner.”

Thanks to law professor Ellen S. Podgor of the “White Collar Crime Prof Blog” for the pointer.

“In MySpace Cases, Appellate Judges Wrestle With Possible Split”: Today in The Legal Intelligencer, Shannon P. Duffy has an article that begins, “Providing a rare study in contrasts, the federal courts in Pennsylvania have had markedly different reactions to two strikingly similar First Amendment cases involving students who were disciplined for ridiculing their principals by creating fake profile pages on MySpace.com.”

“A Senator Who’s Seen the Other Side: GOP’s Lead on Judiciary Panel Was Once Rejected for Bench.” This article appears today in The Washington Post.

And law.com’s Tony Mauro reports that “Critics Pounce on Sotomayor’s Reversal Rate.”

“Conservative Judges Echo Sotomayor in Gun Ruling”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that “Appeals court upholds Chicago’s strict gun laws; Decision by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals sets the stage for a Supreme Court battle over whether the 2nd Amendment and its protection for gun owners extends to cities and states.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “New 2d Amendment case on the way.”

“Case of death row inmate Troy Davis puts new D.A. in tight spot; Some say Davis, a black man, was wrongly convicted of killing an off-duty white police officer; They are pressing the county’s first black D.A. to intervene, a politically dicey prospect”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.