“Minimal clothing, ban on touching upheld”: Yesterday’s edition of The Louisville Courier-Journal contained an article that begins, “Louisville’s efforts to regulate strip clubs got a boost yesterday when the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld a McCracken County ordinance requiring dancers to wear minimal covering and quit touching customers.”

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Kentucky at this link.

“Dorit Beinisch proposes U.S.-style Supreme Court”: Haaretz provides a report that begins, “Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch wants to make the Israeli Supreme Court more like its American counterpart by sharply reducing the number of cases it hears, thereby enabling it to focus solely on cases that involve major legal principles.”

“Graham goes back on attack over judicial pick”: Yesterday’s edition of The State of Columbia, South Carolina contained an article that begins, “President Bush again has sent the Senate the nomination of William Haynes, the Pentagon’s top lawyer, to the federal appellate court over South Carolina, a controversial pick senators twice have declined to support. An exasperated U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., doesn’t quite understand why.”

“Jurisprudes?: What’s wrong with supersexy ads in a legal magazine?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Senate Democrats Revive Demand for Classified Data”: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, “Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.”

The AP is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Businesses Split on Patent Case“; “Governor Seeks to Force Marriage Issue“: and “Court to Hear Google-Newspaper Fight.”

“New York Times Turns to Supreme Court”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “The New York Times asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two reporters in a leak investigation about a terrorism-funding probe.”

Greetings from Washington, DC: My wife, son, and I, and the family with whom we are traveling, were fortunate to receive an informative behind-the-scenes tour of the U.S. Supreme Court building this afternoon from someone who doesn’t want to be identified on the blog.

Thereafter, we had the pleasure of seeing two Smithsonian museums: the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Air and Space Museum. Tomorrow, we’ll be in the vicinity of the White House. We plan to visit some monuments and also, perhaps, to see another Smithsonian museum.

Programming note: My family and I will be spending much of today and tomorrow doing tourist-like things in the Washington, DC area. As a result, additional blog posts will appear here sporadically if at all until Saturday night.

“Hope for bipartisan nominations: Paradoxically, the return of divided government may mark the return of rationality on judicial nominees.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.