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Sunday, December 5, 2010

“A justice’s blind eye to the truth: John Paul Stevens’s argument that capital punishment is racist is contradicted by facts.” Columnist Jeff Jacoby has this op-ed today in The Boston Globe.

Posted at 10:08 PM by Howard Bashman



“Same-Sex Initiative Reaches Next Hurdle”: This article will appear Monday in The New York Times.

Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an article headlined “California’s Gay-Marriage Ban Heads Again to Court.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Prop 8. gay marriage ban to be argued in federal appeals court; The long-running fight over gay marriage in California heads to a federal appeals court Monday; A panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether a federal judge was correct in ruling that the US Constitution protects the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Calif. gay marriage foes gamble on win in Round 2.”

Tomorrow, C-SPAN will provide live, online coverage of the oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit beginning at 1 p.m. eastern time.

Posted at 8:34 PM by Howard Bashman



“Downloading-case loser unsure how she’ll pay”: Today’s edition of The San Antonio Express-News contains an article that begins, “A San Antonio woman whose music downloading case was the first to reach the U.S. Supreme Court says she doesn’t know how she’ll pay $27,750 she now owes five music companies.”

Posted at 10:30 AM by Howard Bashman