Lawrence Hurley is reporting: In Thursday’s edition of The Daily Journal of California, he had articles headlined “Senators Will Probe Recusal Issue; Nominee’s Work as White House Counsel Likely Will Arise” and “Senators To Nominee: Be Forthcoming.”

“Bush Choice Gets Criticisms Rare for Nominees to Court”: This article will appear Monday in The New York Times.

In Monday’s edition of Financial Times, Patti Waldmeir reports that “Senators seek more details of Miers’ role in war on terror.”

The Dallas Morning News on Monday will report that “Senators to scrutinize Miers family land sale; Original award in eminent domain case was 18 times valuation.”

And USA Today on Monday will report that “Miers fails to sway skeptical senators.”

The White House versus The Onion: The New York Times on Monday will contain an article headlined “Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke.”

“Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.” This book, written by Joan Biskupic, will go on sale on Tuesday. Earlier today, I linked here to a review by Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen published today in The Los Angeles Times.

“The porn case: Extreme prosecution.” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review contains this editorial today.

“Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify; Evangelical Leader Says He Has Been Privy to Miers’s View”: This article will appear Monday in The Washington Post.

“This is going to be hard to watch”: Today in The St. Petersburg Times, columnist Philip Gailey has an op-ed in which he writes, “The way things have been going, Miers risks not only rejection by the Senate but humiliation by her critics.”

“Republicans, Democrats confounded by Miers’ nomination”: James Kuhnhenn of Knight Ridder Newspapers provides this report.

Reuters reports that “Lawmakers say Bush likely to stick with Miers.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Miers’s Nomination Hinges on Outcome of Hearing, Senators Say.”

“So when did our own Sam Brownback get to be a rock star?” So begins an article published today in The Kansas City Star under the headline “In the limelight, he’s getting satisfaction; Kansan’s growing prominence feeds into his political importance.”

“Unwise Counsel: Why was the White House so unprepared for the Miers flak?” Glenn Harlan Reynolds has this op-ed today at OpinionJournal.

“Dissatisfaction with Miers only increases”: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains this news analysis today.

Today in The Orange County Register, Dena Bunis has a news analysis headlined “Miers nomination process has many heads spinning.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Democrats Keep Mum on Miers Nomination; For now, they are willing to let the Republicans fight among themselves over Bush’s court pick.”

In The Houston Chronicle, Clay Robison has an essay entitled “A little Texas hindsight into Miers’ nomination.”

In The Arizona Republic, columnist Doug MacEachern has an op-ed entitled “Harriet Miers, a time bomb for conservative progress.”

In The Washington Times, Tom Bray has an op-ed entitled “Judicial philosophy high score.”

In The Oakland Tribune, Byron Williams has an op-ed entitled “Cronyism aside, Miers should do her homework.”

In The San Francisco Chronicle, Martin F. Nolan has an op-ed entitled “Miers takes the heat as Bush’s ratings fall; President’s fair-weather friends rise from their armchairs and turn on his nominee.”

In The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Bradley R. Gitz has an op-ed entitled “Time for a do-over.”

And in The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, Lorraine Woellert has an op-ed entitled “Big business has lot to like about Miers.”

“Another elevation from Texas Supreme Court? Nathan Hecht, Harriet Miers’ No. 1 fan, may well be a favorite for the federal bench.” This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle.

“A quest supreme: Is constitutional pragmatism a recipe for restraint or activism; A biography of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and a book by Justice Stephen Breyer frame the issue — and the stakes.” Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen has this book review today in The Los Angeles Times.

“What Miers must show”: Law Professor Charles Fried has this op-ed today in The Boston Globe.

“Bush and Miers: A Tale of Missteps.” Columnist David S. Broder has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Schumer: Miers Lacks Votes to Be Confirmed.” Hope Yen of The Associated Press provides this report.

“Commerce and Religion Collide on a Mountainside”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

“How To Lose Friends”: The October 31, 2005 issue of Time will contain a Notebook item that begins, “Harriet Miers can ill afford to lose any more support.”

“The Gathering Storm: How Katrina hurt Harriet—and what’s next for the embattled high-court nominee.” This article will appear in the October 31, 2005 issue of Newsweek.

“Sensenbrenner Introduces Legislation Providing For Additional Federal Judgeships and a Realignment of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals”: The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued this news advisory this past Thursday. You can access the text of the Federal Judgeship and Administrative Efficiency Act of 2005 at this link.

“Breyer’s big idea: The Justice’s vision for a progressive revival on the Supreme Court.” Jeffrey Toobin will have this “Annals of Law” essay in the October 31, 2005 issue of The New Yorker.