“So, Do You Believe in ‘Superprecedent’?” Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen will have this Week in Review essay in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Bush narrows Supreme Court selection to 2, sources say”: Sunday in The Chicago Tribune, Jan Crawford Greenburg will have an article in which she reports, “With an announcement expected Sunday or Monday, administration officials have narrowed the focus to Judges Samuel Alito of New Jersey and Michael Luttig of Virginia, sources involved in the process said.”

And Reuters reports that “Luttig, Alito contenders as Bush mulls court pick.”

“Conservatives Rejoice at Nominee’s Withdrawal; Is Nominating Prominent Strict-Constructionist to High Court Too Risky?” Lawrence Hurley had this article in yesterday’s issue of The Daily Journal of California.

“Power Base: Bush’s post-Miers problem.” Law Professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay (pass-through link) online at The New Republic.

“Lessons From the Miers Debacle”: Bruce Shapiro has this essay online at The Nation.

“G’bye, Harriet; Hello…Janice?! If Bush replaces Harriet Miers with Janice Rogers Brown, as the right hopes — well, remember the phrase ‘extraordinary circumstances’?” Simon Maxwell Apter has this essay at The American Prospect Online.

“Sykes would be an excellent Supreme Court justice”: Rick Esenberg has this op-ed today in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The wire services are reporting: The Associated Press provides reports headlined “Supreme Court to Hear Student Loans Case” and “N.J. Judge May Be High On Bush’s Supreme List; Third Circuit Court’s Alito Being Considered For Nomination.”

United Press International, meanwhile, reports that “Third Supreme Court nominee expected soon.”

“After Upheavals, President Seeks to Steady Course”: This article will appear Sunday in The New York Times. According to the article, “Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has emerged as a leading candidate” for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Miers’ Pullout Creates Political Fallout”: This segment (RealPlayer required) featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Weekend Edition – Saturday.”

“Fourth Circuit Letter Bombs”: The “South Carolina Appellate Law Blog” offers a post that begins, “This was not much reported, but a letter bomb was discovered at the Fourth Circuit courthouse in Richmond earlier this week.” The post links to an article from The Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined “Bomb squad disables device at courthouse; Employees evacuated from annex while police render package safe.”

“Merrillville native might have shot at Supreme Court; Law professor, mom say Maureen Mahoney has personal, intellectual credentials”: This article appears today in The Times of Munster, Indiana. It is reassuring to know that Maureen E. Mahoney‘s mother believes that her daughter is well-qualified for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Are cryopreserved pre-embryos “persons” for purposes of Arizona’s wrongful death statutes? A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals addressed that question in an opinion issued Thursday.

In news coverage, The Associated Press provides a report headlined “Ariz. Court: Embryo Outside Not ‘Person.’”

“Voter ID Law Is Overturned; Georgia Can No Longer Charge For Access to Nov. 8 Election”: This article appeared yesterday in The Washington Post.

And The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported yesterday that “Hold on photo ID law upheld.”

Thursday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit can be viewed at this link.

Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown issues her first opinion for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit: You can access the opinion, issued yesterday, at this link. The case involves the Peace Corps, the Freedom of Information Act, and allegations of sexual misconduct.

Available online from law.com: Marcia Coyle has an article headlined “What Does Miers’ Withdrawal Mean for Future Nominees?”

Shannon P. Duffy has an article headlined “Justice Alito? Some Say He’s a New High Court Favorite.”

And in news from California, “Complexity Slows Milberg-Lerach Probe.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times: David G. Savage and Henry Weinstein have an article headlined “Prosecutor Has Built a Strong Case, Experts Say.”

In related coverage, “Prosecutor’s Signature Traits Evident in the Case He Presses; Those familiar with Patrick J. Fitzgerald say he filed what the facts merited, no more or less.”

An article reports that “Some See Indictment as ‘a Devastating Day for Journalism.’”

And Joseph C. Wilson IV has an op-ed entitled “Our 27 months of hell.”

“For Some, Redemption of Killer Rings Hollow”: The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, “Gene Hetzel is aware that death row inmate Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams has written books and been the subject of a movie. Hetzel even heard talk of a Nobel Prize nomination some years ago. And he knows that influential people are lobbying to win him clemency.”

“Ruling backs gay benefits”: The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner contains an article that begins, “State and municipal governments cannot deny benefits to the same-sex partners of their employees under the Alaska Constitution, said a landmark Alaska Supreme Court decision released Friday.”

And the ACLU issued a press release entitled “Unanimous Alaska Supreme Court Says It Is Unconstitutional to Deny Equal Benefits to Lesbian and Gay State Employees.”

My earlier coverage is here.

On yesterday’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition“: The broadcast contained segments entitled “‘Bloggers’ Weigh In on Miers’ Withdrawal” and “Political Woes Mount at White House” (RealPlayer required).

“Court’s suicide decision in limbo; Miers’ withdrawal throws another wild card into case about unique Oregon law”: The Salem Statesman Journal contains this article today.