Available online from National Public Radio: Today’s broadcast of “Weekend Edition Sunday” contained audio segments entitled “Supreme Court Wraps Up with Flurry of Decisions” and “Death-Penalty Opinion Varies With the Question.”
Friday’s broadcast of “All Things Considered” contained audio segments entitled “Issues: Court Decisions and Flag-Burning” and “Congress Will Consider Legalizing Tribunals.”
Friday’s broadcast of “Talk of the Nation” contained an audio segment entitled “Supreme Court Takes First Global Warming Case.”
And Friday’s broadcast of “Day to Day” contained an audio segment entitled “Reshaping Policy on Guantanamo Detainees.”
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“Lawyer-Bloggers: Fact or Fiction?” Ari Kaplan has this essay online at law.com.
“Thanks, justices: Great gift for 4th; With its 5-3 rebuff of Bush’s executive-power claims, the Supreme Court reminds us what Constitution’s all about”: Columnist Trudy Rubin has this op-ed today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Supreme Court’s new man in the middle; The most significant development of the high court’s 2005-2006 term, which ended last week, is the emergence of Justice Kennedy as the sole swing vote at the moderate center of the court”: Warren Richey will have this article Monday in The Christian Science Monitor.
“Gitmo win likely cost Navy lawyer his career; ‘Fearless’ defense of detainee a stinging loss for Bush”: Yesterday, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contained an article that begins, “Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift — the Navy lawyer who beat the president of the United States in a pivotal Supreme Court battle over trying alleged terrorists — figures he’ll probably have to find a new job.”
“Hurdle to Closing Guantanamo: Where to Put Inmates.” This article appears today in The Washington Post. And an editorial is entitled “Let There Be Law: The Supreme Court has offered a chance to put the war on terror on solid legal ground; Will Congress rise to the occasion?”
The Los Angeles Times today contains articles headlined “Guantanamo Detainees: Why They’re Still There” and “GOP Aims to Use a War to Win an Election Battle; Republicans are once again making the fight against terrorism a campaign cornerstone; So far, Democrats have not been as engaging.”
And The Miami Herald contains an editorial entitled “Upholding the rule of law.”
“Wrong on Wrongful Executions”: Theodore M. Shaw has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.
“Penry death penalty case festers; Convict’s questionable mental level leads to 3 overturned sentences”: This article appears today in The Dallas Morning News.
“The Court’s Electoral Thicket”: Columnist George F. Will has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.
“Eminent Domain Plaintiff Will Keep Her House; However, under a settlement between New London, Conn., and the suit’s namesake, the structure will be moved”: Yesterday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contained this article.
And today, The Day of New London, Connecticut contains an editorial entitled “Residents, State, City Settle.”
“Anesthesiologists Advised to Avoid Executions; The physicians are being sought to supervise lethal injections; But a professional group says that’s a legal problem, not a medical one”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
“The Court Enters the War, Loudly”: Adam Liptak has this article in the Week in Review section of today’s issue of The New York Times.
“How to Fix Guantanamo: An estimated 75% of its inmates there are no longer even being interrogated; After the Supreme Court’s rebuke, what can the U.S. do to improve its handling of detainees?” This article will appear in the July 10, 2006 issue of Time magazine.
“Justice Kennedy Makes the Calls on Roberts Supreme Court”: David G. Savage has this news analysis today in The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled “Supreme Court freshmen.”
Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article headlined “Kennedy — the new point man; No surprises from Bush’s appointees.”
And The Arizona Republic reports that “Kennedy is court’s new swing vote.”
