Available today from National Review Online: Edward Whelan has an essay entitled “Alien Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg vs. the Declaration of Independence.”

And Rich Lowry has an essay entitled “Sacred Obstruction: The refuge of losers.”

“Lawmakers Near Showdown on Judicial Filibusters”: Today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition” included this segment (RealPlayer required).

“Supreme Court gets Oregon death case; The justices will rule on whether alibi evidence can be introduced in the penalty phase of a Deschutes County murder trial”: This article appears today in The Oregonian.

In The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reports that “Justices to Decide if Social Security Can Be Seized; A Washington state man with $80,000 in unpaid student loans seeks to shield his benefits” and “High Court Dismisses POWs’ Torture Claim Against Iraq; The White House had argued against a $1-billion verdict won after the 1991 Gulf War.”

In The Washington Post, Charles Lane reports that “Justices to Review Loan Offsets; Court to Decide Whether a 10-Year Limit Shields Student Debts.”

The Washington Times reports that “POW appeal rejected by court.”

The Chicago Tribune reports that “Andersen’s appeal has rapt audience.”

And Michael Kirkland, UPI legal affairs correspondent, reports that “Court explores Iran liability.”

“Ex-wife of Diaz makes plea deal, may testify”: The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi today contains an article that begins, “Jennifer Diaz, indicted with ex-husband state Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz on federal corruption charges, pleaded guilty Monday to income tax evasion in exchange for having the other charges against her dismissed.”

And The Biloxi Sun Herald reports that “Jennifer Diaz pleads guilty to tax evasion.”

“Can Bloggers Invoke the Journalist’s Privilege to Protect Confidential Sources Who Leak Trade Secrets? A Suit Filed by Apple Computer Raises the Question.” FindLaw commentator Julie Hilden has this essay today.

“Scalia visit still igniting controversy”: Washington Square News contains this article today.

“Senators May Compromise to End Impasse on Judges”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

The Washington Post contains articles headlined “Democrats Hint At Filibuster Deal; Some Judges Might Be Confirmed” and “Poll: Filibuster Rule Change Opposed.”

The Los Angeles Times contains articles headlined “Democrats May Compromise on Judicial Fight; Leaders say they would consider a deal with the GOP on appointees if filibuster rules are kept” and “Clashes Growing Between Bush and GOP Moderates.”

The Washington Times reports that “Undecided Specter could doom GOP” and “Frist angers conservatives by distancing from DeLay.”

Financial Times reports that “Democrat turns up the heat on Frist.”

The Guardian (UK) reports that “Democrats rally to protect power of the filibuster.”

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains articles headlined “Senate comity fades as once-friendly leaders duel” and “Filibustering an ancient art; Romans did it, and so did Huey P. Long — for 15 1/2 hours.”

The Telegraph (UK) reports that “Congress clash over politics and religion.”

The Hill contains an article headlined “No nuclear disarmament, Sen. Frist warns K Street.”

USA Today contains an article headlined “Rove: Bolton will be confirmed; judges deserve vote.”

CNN.com reports that “Reid seeks compromise with Frist on judges; Says he is working on ways to avoid ‘nuclear option.’”

The Denver Post reports that “Salazar wins points in filibuster tussle.”

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that “Chandler, McConnell reflect split over Justice Sunday; Others in Congress are mum on issue.”

In commentary, The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial entitled “Nuke the Filibuster.”

The New York Times contains an editorial entitled “The Disappearing Wall,” while letters to the editor appear under the heading “Senator Frist Takes to the Pulpit.”

Newsday contains an editorial entitled “Girding for filibuster war: Frist makes nice; Cheney talks tough.”

The San Jose Mercury News contains an editorial entitled “Frist’s idea to curb filibusters could stir up war in Senate.”

The Arizona Republic contains an editorial entitled “Filibuster fuss: Find a middle ground on judges, fellas.”

The Berkshire Eagle contains an editorial entitled “Playing filibuster politics.”

The Roanoke Times contains an editorial entitled “Republican hypocrisy on the ‘nuclear option.’”

The Harvard Crimson contains an editorial entitled “Filibustering the Nuclear Option: Eliminating the minority from judicial nominations is extremely dangerous.”

The Washington Times contains an editorial entitled “The Democrats’ intimidation tactics.”

The Louisville Courier-Journal contains an editorial entitled “Faith-based courts.”

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contains an editorial entitled “Justice Today: Respect, not retaliation.”

In The Boston Globe, Steven Lubet has an op-ed entitled “Misplaying the filibuster.”

In The Washington Times, Bruce Fein has an op-ed entitled “Filibuster benchmarks.”

In The Chicago Sun-Times, Jesse Jackson has an op-ed entitled “Right-wing assault threatens independence of judiciary.”

In The Los Angeles Daily News, Noel Sheppard has an op-ed entitled “Republicans shouldn’t bust up the filibuster.”

At Townhall.com, Bill Murchison has an essay entitled “God and the Supreme Court.”

UPI’s senior political analyst Peter Roff has an essay entitled “A constitutional crisis.”

In The Denver Post, Ed Quillen has an op-ed entitled “Justice Sunday belies its name.”

The Rocky Mountain News contains an op-ed by Mike Littwin entitled “Key issue for Dobson goes beyond the filibuster” and an op-ed by Vincent Carroll entitled “Two who cry ‘Wolf!’”

In The Louisville Courier-Journal, Bob Hill has an op-ed entitled “We need more talk and fewer media events.”

In The Harvard Crimson, John W. Hastrup has an op-ed entitled “Hypocrisy in the ‘Nuclear’ War: Democrats share the blame in the filibuster fiasco.”

In The Daily Vanguard of Portland State University, Chaelan MacTavish has an op-ed entitled “Blowing the government to hell: Republican bullies should give up on proposed ‘nuclear option’ to end filibusters.”

In The Ball State Daily News, Steve Nawara has an op-ed entitled “Democrats right to block nominees.”

And in The Daily Iowan, Beau Elliot has an op-ed entitled “Going nuclear.”

“Faith ‘War’ Rages in U.S., Judge Says; A Bush nominee central to the Senate’s judicial controversy criticizes secular humanists”: The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, “Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a ‘war’ against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots, according to a newspaper account of the speech.”

The LATimes article reports on an article headlined “Red Mass breakfast visited by filibuster controversy” published yesterday in The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate. I first linked to that article yesterday in a post you can access here.