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Sunday, June 21, 2009

“Innocents Lost: A Supreme Court decision increases the risk that the wrongly convicted could be kept behind bars.” This editorial appears today in The Washington Post.

Posted at 10:58 PM by Howard Bashman



“Judge’s Mentor: Part Guide, Part Foil.” Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “Not long after her admission to Yale Law School in early 1976, Sonia Sotomayor turned up unexpectedly at a lunch with the university’s general counsel, Jose A. Cabranes.”

Posted at 10:55 PM by Howard Bashman



“In Missouri, a Fight Over a Highway Adoption”: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, “When a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Movement volunteered last year to clean a Missouri highway, and get official recognition for it in the form of an Adopt-a-Highway sign, state officials felt powerless to refuse. So they took a rather clever tack.”

Update: And The Associated Press reports that “Road cleaned by neo-Nazis may be named for rabbi.”

Posted at 9:20 AM by Howard Bashman