“Besieged White House Reinforces Counsel’s Office”: The Washington Post contains this article today.

“Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.” This article will appear Sunday in The New York Times.

Harrisburg Senators 9, Altoona Curve 6: My son and I spent this delightful spring evening in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, watching from two rows behind the Senators dugout a AA minor league baseball game between two Eastern League rivals.

After squandering a two-run lead in the top of the seventh, and facing a three-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh, the Senators managed to answer the five runs that the Curve scored in the top of that inning with five runs of their own. You can access the box score at this link, while game recaps are here and here. Thanks to home plate umpire Cory Blaser for tossing a baseball to my son as the umps were exiting the field at the conclusion of the game.

Earlier today, my son’s little league team was eliminated in the semifinal round of the playoffs for teams consisting of fifth and sixth graders. Although that was a sad development, the team was the only one of multiple teams from our township to make it to the semifinal round. My son played well today, reaching base safely on two out of three trips to the plate. And on defense, he played very well, handling two opportunities at second base (a grounder and a line drive), and in left field catching the third out on a sharply hit fly ball when the opposing team had runners on second and third who surely would have scored had the ball not been caught.

Our baseball-filled weekend will conclude tomorrow, as we head to Baltimore to watch the Orioles host the Colorado Rockies and to obtain a bobblehead doll.

“2 courts apply same experience-and-logic test, get different results”: Online at the First Amendment Center, Douglas Lee has an essay that begins, “Experience and logic, it appears, also are in the eyes of the beholder. No other explanation exists for the diametrically opposed holdings in Pennsylvania v. Long and U.S. v. Black, in which one court recognized a First Amendment right of access to jurors’ names and another did not. While both courts applied the ‘experience and logic’ test required by the U.S. Supreme Court, their applications could not have been more different.”

“Hamdan seeks new court review”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“A Bill of Rights without borders: A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror.” Law Professor Kal Raustiala has this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Campbell claims unjust sentencing; Attorney says judge punished ex-mayor for some things of which he was acquitted”: This article, reporting on an appeal argued yesterday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Ruling Likely to Spur Convictions in Capital Cases”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.