“What did Brown mean? The Supreme Court may reinterpret the landmark ruling, threatening racial diversity in schools.” Edward Lazarus has this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

“He’s a hired gun of the highest caliber: Wal-Mart’s top outside lawyer is known for limiting punitive damages and defending media access.” This profile of Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Guantanamo justification is cloaked in hypocrisy”: John Chandler and Robert Allen have this op-ed today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“The mean men in black”: Today in The St. Petersburg Times, columnist Robyn Blumner has an op-ed that begins, “Often you can sum up the collective actions of the Supreme Court under a particular chief justice with one word. The Warren court will always be remembered as liberal, the Burger court as pragmatic, the Rehnquist court as conservative, and the Roberts court in a short time has already earned its moniker: mean.”

“Speech Police, Riding High In Oakland”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Judge’s death rocks colleagues; Manzanares committed suicide Friday amid charges he had stolen a court laptop”: The Denver Post provides a news update that begins, “Anger and sadness settled Saturday on those who remembered Larry Manzanares for his lifelong service to the community and blamed his suicide on excessive publicity surrounding the scandal that toppled his career. Harvard-educated Manzanares, 50, who had been a popular and well- respected local judge for 15 years, resigned from his nearly 2-month-old post as city attorney in February after a stolen laptop was found in his possession. Felony charges of theft, embezzlement and tampering with evidence were filed against him June 13. The former judge was dealing with a collapsing career, possible prison time and media scrutiny of his personal life. He shot himself Friday, just hours after he was advised of the charges against him in court.”

Another news update from The Denver Post is headlined “Colleagues decry actions of prosecution.” And today’s newspaper reports that “Ex-city attorney kills himself.”

And Saturday’s edition of The Rocky Mountain News contained an article headlined “Laptop case on lockdown; Temporary gag order issued by judge” that begins, “The defense attorney for former Denver city attorney and District Judge Larry Manzanares contends prosecutors violated his rights when they held a news conference and released an affidavit detailing pornography found on a stolen laptop.”

“Bush domestic spying program flawed, former FISA court chief says”: McClatchy Newspapers provide a report that begins, “The former chief judge of a secret national security court took a swipe Saturday at the administration’s recently halted domestic spying program and said he insisted from the outset that the information gleaned must not be co-mingled with intelligence gathered under court warrants.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge Criticizes Warrantless Wiretaps.”

“A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery”: Michael Isikoff will have this Periscope item in the July 2, 2007 issue of Newsweek.

In the July 2, 2007 issue of Time magazine: An article is headlined “The Endgame for Guantanamo?”

Reynolds Holding has an article headlined “E-mail Privacy Gets a Win in Court.”

And a profile of former Third Circuit Judge Michael Chertoff is headlined “The Running Man.”

On yesterday’s and today’s broadcasts of NPR’s “All Things Considered”: Yesterday’s broadcast contained audio segments entitled “Deciding the Future of Guantanamo” and “Military Lawyer Questions Guantanamo Hearings.”

And today’s broadcast contained an audio segment entitled “Judge Remembers Time on Top Secret Bench.”

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Altoona Curve 5, Reading Phillies 4: My son and I traveled this afternoon to Reading, Pennsylvania where we saw the home Phillies lose to the visiting Curve. Notwithstanding the outcome, the weather this afternoon was beautiful and the game was exciting. You can access the box score at this link, while wraps are available here and here.