“David Souter Gets Rock Star Welcome, Offers Constitution Day Warning”: Margaret Warner has this blog post at PBS NewsHour.

“Wrangle over union law will keep courts busy”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a news update that begins, “Gov. Scott Walker’s curbs on collective bargaining were overturned even before they took effect last year, quickly reinstated by the state Supreme Court, scaled back in March by a federal judge and, on Friday, dealt a major blow by a Dane County judge. Expect nothing but more court decisions in the months ahead as appeals on those last two cases are heard and others are sorted out by the court system.”

“Mesa mulls its next move on Angel Tattoo; State high court orders case back to county level”: The Arizona Republic has this news update.

“Newsmaker: Reuters Editor-in-Chief, Stephen J. Adler moderates a conversation with Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Professor Bryan A. Garner on their new book, ‘Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.'” You can watch live, online now via YouTube by clicking here.

“U.S. Warns Ruling Impedes Its Detention Powers”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has a news update that begins, “The Obama administration warned Monday that a judge’s ruling last week blocking a statute authorizing the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects has jeopardized its ability to continue detaining certain prisoners captured during the war in Afghanistan.”

“U.S. asks appeals court to freeze military detention ruling”: Reuters has this report.

“How Obama, Roberts Interpret Laws In ‘The Oath'”: This audio segment, featuring an interview with Jeffrey Toobin, appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Fresh Air from WHYY.”

“DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Uphold Dismissal of Hiring Practices Suit”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post that begins, “The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t dispute that significant misconduct marred the review of candidates for a coveted slot in the department’s Honors Program in 2006. Department lawyers, however, want a federal appeals court to uphold the dismissal of a lawsuit that alleges senior DOJ officials improperly used candidates’ political and ideological information as the basis of dismissal from the interview process.”

“From Justice Thomas, a Little Talk About Himself and the Court”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“First big victim of 2nd Circuit’s MBS standing opinion: JPMorgan.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“Calif. DNA collection from arrestees challenged”: The Associated Press has this report.

And last month, The Recorder published an article headlined “9th Circuit’s Reconsideration of DNA Collection Program Won’t Be the Last Case in the Sequence.”

“High-Court Clerks Attract a Frenzy; Law Firms Offer Signing Bonuses That Exceed Justices’ Pay”: Brent Kendall has this article today in The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the text of the article via Google News.

“Voting Rights for Blacks in ’65 Face Court Challenge”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Thomas concedes that ‘we the people’ didn’t include blacks”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.