“White House Tries to Stem Miers Concerns”: The Associated Press provides this report.

“High Court Weighs Scope of First Amendment Rights”: This segment (RealPlayer required) featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR‘s “All Things Considered.”

“Would a Justice Miers recuse herself from key cases? She may be obliged to refrain from voting on certain issues, ethicists say, if she helped to craft White House policies.” Warren Richey will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The Christian Science Monitor.

“Miers Chosen After Others Withdrew, White House Says”: Bloomberg News provides this report.

Editor & Publisher offers an item headlined “White House Briefing: Reporters Hit Hard on Role of Religion in Miers Pick.”

Online at The Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes has an essay entitled “What Might Have Been: The Miers nomination didn’t have to go this way.”

And finally, you can access online transcripts entitled “White House Spin Worsens Miers Mess” and “Liberals Like Stephen Breyer Have Bastardized the Constitution” from today’s broadcast of the Rush Limbaugh show.

“Scalia Turns Journalists Away From Speech”: Gina Holland of The Associated Press provides this report.

“Pat Robertson threatens retaliation against conservative senators who oppose Miers”: People For the American Way provides this report along with video confirmation.

“Circuit’s Hamdan ruling intact”: Lyle Denniston provides this report at “SCOTUSblog.” Earlier, I posted a copy of the D.C. Circuit‘s order here.

On today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Day to Day“: The broadcast contained segments entitled “Slate’s Jurisprudence: High Court Whistleblower Case” (featuring Dahlia Lithwick) and “Slate’s Politics: Dobson’s Inside Scoop on Miers.” RealPlayer is required to launch these audio segments.

“Whistle Blowhards: The Supreme Court probes whether whistleblowers are heroes or nuisances.” Dahlia Lithwick has this Supreme Court dispatch online at Slate.

“US top court hears whistle-blower case”: James Vicini of Reuters provides this report.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Supreme Court Hears Injured Miners’ Case” and “Lawyers Recall Miers’ Preparation Skills.”

“Where products in the relevant market are not typically displayed in the same locations, centering on whether they are likely to be distinguished when viewed simultaneously is incorrect, and will result in a faulty likelihood-of-confusion analysis.” Louis Vuitton handbags are the subject of this trademark infringement preliminary injunction ruling that Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

“Human Rights in the Balance: What’s at Stake in Hamdan.” David Luban has this post today at “Balkinization.” And yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit entered an order denying the motion of a Guantanamo detainee, not a party to the Hamdan suit, who was seeking leave to intervene in order to request the recusal of former D.C. Circuit Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. in Hamdan and vacatur of the D.C. Circuit’s Hamdan decision.

In commentary: At National Review Online, Joseph J. Cella has an essay entitled “Faith Is Not the Thing: God and Harriet Miers in the Senate.” And Jonah Goldberg has an essay entitled “Cronies Here and There: In (qualified) defense of cronyism.”

Online at Reason, Julian Sanchez has an essay entitled “The Revolt of the Elites: Why a ‘trust me’ from George Bush no longer cuts it.”

Online at The American Prospect, Jack Hitt has an essay entitled “Vote Your Absence: Should Democrats support Harriet Miers? No — they shouldn’t even vote.” And Michael Tomasky has an essay entitled “Honest Conservatives Awaken: Finally, conservatives have noticed that their president is failing them.”

Finally, online at The Nation, Robert Scheer has an essay entitled “With Friends Like This….” And Morton Mintz offers “Ten Questions for Harriet Miers.”

“Top Court Considers Whistleblower Lawsuit”: Gina Holland of The Associated Press provides this report.

“Analysis: a limit on internal whistleblowing?” At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston provides this report on a case argued today at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Available online from C-SPAN: You can view online both “Justice Stephen Breyer on Service in Int’l Law” and “Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Confirmation Process for Supreme Court Nominees” (RealPlayer required).

“Bush: Miers’ Religion Cited in Court Nod.” The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “President Bush said Wednesday that Harriet Miers’ religious beliefs figured into her nomination to the Supreme Court as a top-ranking Democrat warned against any ‘wink and a nod’ campaign for confirmation.”

And Reuters provides a report headlined “Some high court candidates withdrew: White House.”

“Focus of CIA Leak Probe Appears to Widen”: This article (pass-through link) appears today in The Wall Street Journal.

The New York Times reports today that “Times Reporter to Testify on Recently Found Notes.”

The Washington Post reports that “Special Prosecutor Again Queries Reporter.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “N.Y. Times Reporter to Again Testify Before Grand Jury in CIA Leak Case; Judith Miller turns over new notes and plans to ‘supplement’ earlier testimony, her boss says.”

And The New York Observer reports that “Miller Called Back For Second Round On Plame Affair.”

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales defends the nomination of Harriet Miers: This morning, Attorney General Gonzales appeared on FOXNews, Good Morning America, and CNN. Windows Media Player is required to launch these video clips.

Eighth Circuit overturns class certifications in In re: St. Jude Medical, Inc., Silzone Heart Valve Products Liability Litigation: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Simply Not Good Enough”: At the web site of cbs4denver, CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has an essay that begins, “White House counsel Harriet Miers’ nomination to the United States Supreme Court shouldn’t be scuttled merely because she has no prior experience as a judge.”

“Group close to Falwell will not back Miers”: The News & Advance of Lynchburg, Virginia today contains an article that begins, “Liberty Counsel, a conservative legal advocacy group with close ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell, announced Tuesday that it is opposing Harriet Miers’ nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“Wiccan priestess out of appeals; Supreme Court won’t hear Chesterfield case excluding her prayer”: This article appears today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

FOXNews.com is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “High Court to Hear Whistleblower Case” and “Conservatives Split on Faith in Bush.”

“High Court to Examine the Scope Of Federal Clean-Water Laws”: Jess Bravin has this article (pass-through link) today in The Wall Street Journal.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. gets the D.C., Fourth, and Federal Circuits: Yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of the United States reallocating Circuit Justice responsibilities can be accessed here.

“Competing rights are weighed in bias suit; Lesbian says fertility doctors discriminated”: This article appears today in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

And The AP reports that “Calif. Court Hears Gay Fertility Case.”

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Gonzales Urges: Give Miers a Chance” and “Miers Seen As Fair on City Council.”

“Is Miers a Tax Textualist?” This post appears today at “TaxProf Blog.”

“Barnett v. Bagenstos” on Gonzales v. Raich: At “The Yale Law Federalist Society” blog, Will Baude provides this coverage of yesterday’s debate.

The Chicago Tribune is reporting: Today’s newspaper contains articles headlined “Are pot clubs legal? It’s hazy; Despite feds’ right to crack down, medical marijuana in California seems safe for now” and “Getting justice back on track; Flooding shut the courthouse, so lawyers, judges and defendants are making do at the train station.”

In today’s edition of The Sacramento Bee: The newspaper contains an article headlined “A ‘lawyer’s lawyer’: Quin Denvir prepares to retire after a decade of defending the poor” that begins, “To most people, Theodore Kaczynski is the notorious Unabomber, who used his genius to strategically place homemade bombs throughout the nation for 17 years before he was captured. To Quin Denvir he is one on a long list of clients whose lives were worth saving.”

And in other news, “High court deals setback to GenCorp.”

“Justices to Measure Clean Water Act’s Reach; The high court will hear cases that could limit the power of the U.S. to protect wetlands”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

The Detroit News reports that “Justices take up wetland control; Two cases stemming from development projects in Mich. head to U.S. Supreme Court.”

Michael McGough of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that “U.S. Supreme Court wades into Michigan dispute over wetlands.”

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Supreme Court to consider cutting wetlands protection; U.S. oversight of areas far from lakes, rivers challenged.”

And The St. Petersburg Times reports that “Wetlands in hands of high court; Three cases scheduled to be heard before the new Supreme Court likely will decide the fate of vast stretches of Florida.”

“Ruling jeopardizes wildfire plea bargain; The state’s high court upholds a decision that cut jail time in half for Terry Barton, who set the 2002 Hayman fire; But the result could be more cases filed against her”: This article appears today in The Denver Post.

And The Rocky Mountain News reports today that “Hayman Fire starter wins sentence fight.”