“IG report: Justice Dept. wrongly considered politics in hiring.” Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.
The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Left-leaning Justice Department applicants were denied interviews, report finds; Two officials illegally allowed political considerations to come into play when screening applicants for the department’s honors program and summer internships, the Justice investigation finds.”
And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment entitled “Audit: Justice Dept. Kept Out Liberal Attorneys” (RealPlayer required).
“Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department”: The New York Times has a news update that begins, “Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used ‘political or ideological’ factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.”
You can access today’s report of the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice at this link.
D.C. Circuit reverses dismissal of lawsuit filed by plaintiffs who sued Iraq, the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and Saddam Hussein, alleging that those defendants had tortured plaintiffs and taken them hostage during the 1990-91 Gulf War: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.
“Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad.” Arin Greenwood has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“Death Row Inmate’s Case Gets 3rd Hearing”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.
“Judge Urged to Order Associates Of President to Honor Subpoena; House Panel Seeks Information About Prosecutors’ Firings”: The Washington Post contains this article today.
And today in The New York Times, Neil A. Lewis has an article headlined “Before Judge, Spirited Clash on Subpoenas for Bush Aides.”
“Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee’s ‘Enemy’ Status; Challenge Is First of Its Kind to Succeed”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.
And The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Court rules for Guantanamo inmate; Huzaifa Parhat, a Uighur Muslim, must be released, transferred or given a new hearing, a federal appeals court rules; It’s another setback for the Bush administration.”
“Gitmo troopers get tattoos as off-duty diversion; Tattoos are all the rage at Guantanamo Bay as U.S. service members and contractors line up to get inked up”: Carol Rosenberg had this article Saturday in The Miami Herald.
“In defense of home schooling: Supporters argue that parents shouldn’t need teaching credentials; Lawyers suggest a more narrow ruling.” The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, “Advocates urged a state appellate court Monday to overturn a decision that severely restricted the ability of California parents to educate their children at home, saying family-based schooling works for hundreds of thousands of children.”
“High Court to Take Up Pregnancy Leave Case”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.
And today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that “Court to hear case over mothers’ retirement benefits; AT&T was found guilty of bias against pregnant women.”
“High Court to Review Naval Sonar Dispute; Environmental Petition on Border Fence Declined”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.
Today in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has articles headlined “Supreme Court to hear case involving Navy sonar and whales; The justices will examine a judge’s ruling that limited military training when marine mammals are near” and “Border fence challenge rebuffed by Supreme Court; The justices decline to hear a petition from environmentalists, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to continue construction.”
In USA Today, Joan Biskupic reports that “Justices to debate whether Navy sonar harms whales; Appeals court had eased restrictions on timing, location of military exercises.”
In The Christian Science Monitor, Warren Richey reports that “Case of sonar’s effects on whales heads to high court; At issue: Can a judge enforce environmental rules at the expense of national defense training?”
In The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that “Supreme Court to consider sonar versus whales.”
The Dallas Morning News reports that “U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear border fence challenge.”
The Arizona Republic reports that “Final miles of border fence get green light; Supreme Court ignores environmental concerns.”
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that “Border fence case is rejected; Supreme Court allows construction to proceed.”
And The San Antonio Express-News reports that “Environmentalists see bumps ahead for border fence efforts.”
“Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program”: The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, “High-ranking political appointees at the Justice Department labored to stock a prestigious hiring program with young conservatives in a five-year-long attempt to reshape the department’s ranks, according to an inspector general’s report to be released today.”
“Judge won’t quit terror case; Defendant facing sentencing cites jurist’s Jewish heritage”: Today’s edition of The Detroit News contains an article that begins, “A Lebanese-born man who pleaded guilty to providing support to the terrorist organization Hezbollah asked a federal judge on Monday to disqualify himself from passing sentence on him because the judge is Jewish and might have pro-Israel sympathies.”
“Batting Ninth: The Circuit Court sets itself up for another double play.” The Wall Street Journal today contains an editorial that begins, “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has made a cottage industry of serving up wacky decisions for the Supreme Court to reverse. And yesterday, the High Court agreed to swing at two more hanging curves next year.”
“Top court won’t hear appeal of Atlantic Yards eviction”: This article appears today in Newsday.
The New York Times reports today that “U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Atlantic Yards Case.”
And The New York Sun reports that “Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Atlantic Yards.”
“Palestinian Authority May Defend Itself in N.Y. Courts”: Today in The New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein has an article that begins, “The battle in Gaza and the West Bank will soon come to a federal court on Pearl Street. In a surprising shift, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority says his government is willing to defend itself against lawsuits alleging that it is liable for acts of Palestinian Arab terrorism during the intifada, according to court papers.”
“Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Headed for Sun Valley, Idaho”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release yesterday.
“‘Porn judge’ has no ‘judgment’; Researcher says it’s ‘ludicrous’ for Christians to expect justice”: WorldNetDaily provides this report.
Today in The Staten Island Advance, columnist Daniel Leddy has an op-ed entitled “Kozinski scandal merits no more than a shrug.”
And KSBY 6 Action News provides a report headlined “Jordan Hasay defends national title” that begins, “Over the weekend, Central Coast track star Jordan Hasay won her second straight U.S. Junior National title. The Mission Prep star won the 1,500 meter race finishing at four minutes 18-point-four seconds. She beat her old rival Alex Kozinski by less than a second.” Critics denounced the event, which pitted a well conditioned young female athlete against a middle aged, slightly overweight federal appellate judge.
“The Supreme Court’s Recent Child Pornography Decision: Why Justices Souter and Ginsburg Dissented.” Julie Hilden has this essay online at FindLaw. She began discussing this case in this essay from earlier this month.
“Reid announces Senate votes on judges”: The Hill provides a report that begins, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday announced that the chamber would vote Tuesday on a handful of judgeships that have stymied legislative action in recent weeks. His office and Judiciary Committee aides later confirmed that two circuit court nominees and three district court nominees are scheduled for pending votes, although it is unclear how many of them will be voted on immediately Tuesday.” According to the article, “The circuit court nominees are Helene White and Ray Kethledge, both nominated for Michigan seats on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.”
