Programming note: As has happened the final week of August almost every year since this blog began in May 2002, I’ll be spending next week downashore. New posts will next appear here on Saturday, August 29th. Between now and then, readers are invited to let me know via email of news, court rulings, and other developments that might be worthy of mention upon my return.

As for attending baseball games in the near future, on the night of Monday, August 24th, my son and I will watch the Lakewood BlueClaws host the Lake County Captains.* Then, on the night of Sunday, August 30th, we’ll watch the Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves. Meanwhile, last night we were at Waterfront Park in Trenton, New Jersey as “Thunder toss 10-inning one-hitter; Bush, four relievers combine on Trenton’s 15th shutout.”

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*The Lakewood BlueClaws game of Sunday, August 23, 2009 was cancelled due to rain. As a result, the tickets we have for Monday, August 24th will now allow us to attend a doubleheader consisting of two seven-inning games. Even better, the rehab appearance by Phillies pitcher Brett Myers, which was to have occurred on Sunday, will now occur in game one of Monday’s doubleheader, allowing us to see Brett pitch as he works to rejoin the Phils following hip surgery earlier this year to repair a torn labrum. The official game notes in advance of Monday’s doubleheader can be accessed here.

“In ‘Hillary: The Movie’ case, Supreme Court considers major shift in election law; Supreme Court precedent on corporate spending limits may be overturned; The conservative majority has opposed campaign spending laws in narrower cases, citing free speech”: David G. Savage will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

“The government versus Hal Turner: As vile as his rhetoric is, the right-wing extremist’s odious online views deserve 1st Amendment protections.” Today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial that begins, “In bringing criminal charges against an Internet radio host and blogger who wrote that three judges ‘deserve to be killed’ for their ruling in a 2nd Amendment case, the U.S. Justice Department isn’t risking much public criticism.”

“Appeals Court Orders Church-Run Post Office To Remove Religious Materials”: This article appeared Friday in The Hartford Courant.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Religious items OK in Conn. postal facility.”

My earlier coverage of Thursday’s Second Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Feds Urge Dismissal of High-Profile Spy Case”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “The Obama administration is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit weighing whether a sitting U.S. president may lawfully create a spying program to eavesdrop on Americans’ electronic communications without warrants or congressional authorization.”

And at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Obama DOJ punts on warrantless taps’ legality” at his “Under the Radar” blog.