“The stage is set: As local players line up on either side, New Hampshire’s attorney general on Wednesday will try to persuade US Supreme Court justices to reinstate a controversial abortion notification law.” This article appears today in The Boston Globe.

“Alito and Abortion: Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, but he shouldn’t say if he’d overturn it.” Roger Pilon has this op-ed today in The Wall Street Journal.

“Poll: Americans back abortion limits, oppose ban; Supreme Court set to hear cases on notification, clinic protests.” CNN.com provides this report.

“Alito keeps favor of conservatives, moderates”: This article will appear Monday in USA Today.

And in somewhat related news, Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain a profile headlined “Intense, Yes, but Not Always Hugely Successful” of Steve Schmidt, described as among other things “chief White House strategist in charge of selling the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Capitol Hill.”

Monday’s edition of The New York Times reports on foreign judges: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain articles headlined “Tribunal Leader in Hussein’s Case Is Target of Plot” and “A Judge Tests China’s Courts, Making History.”

“Advocacy Groups Targeting Vulnerable Senators on Alito Vote”: This article will appear Monday in The Washington Post.

“Court considers expense account revisions; Changes could be implemented in January”: The Harrisburg Patriot-News today contains an article that begins, “One month after The Patriot-News reported on spending by the state’s top court justices, Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Cappy wrote an e-mail suggesting revisions to the judges’ expense accounts.”

“Judicial Independence: Packing the courts.” This editorial will appear Monday in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

“The Solomon choice: By standing up for the right to oppose the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, some fear law schools could undermine two landmark civil rights laws.” The Boston Globe today contains this article.

And Minnesota Public Radio today provides a written report headlined “Universities and federal government at odds over military recruiting.”

“Abortion Wars, Once Again: The case being argued this week before the Supreme Court may determine just how far state restrictions can go.” This article will appear in the December 5, 2005 issue of U.S. News & World Report.

“Court guide on abortion limits access; Rules keep judicial review to work hours”: The Concord Monitor today contains an article that begins, “Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is defending the state’s abortion law by arguing that it doesn’t need a health exception because girls who can’t tell a parent they need an emergency abortion can ask a judge for permission at any hour, even on weekends and holidays. But the rules the state Supreme Court has approved for a ‘judicial bypass’ do not give a pregnant girl or her doctor anything close to the access Ayotte envisions. The rules allow a doctor to fax a bypass request for an emergency abortion to a court at any time, but they clearly state that the fax machine would not be checked until the next business day.”

In news and commentary from Hawaii: The Honolulu Advertiser yesterday contained an article headlined “Court rejects group’s cave danger claim.”

And The Honolulu Star-Bulletin yesterday contained an op-ed entitled “Don’t rely on court to uphold aerial ban.”

“Splitting 9th Circuit bad for Ariz.” Columnist Jim Kiser has this op-ed today in The Arizona Daily Star.

Last Monday, The Arizona Republic contained an op-ed by Roxie Bacon and Don Bivens entitled “Rhetoric, not 9th Circuit, is what’s overloaded.” In response to that op-ed, the newspaper yesterday printed a letter to the editor under the heading “‘9th Circus’ is a court full of clowns.”

And in somewhat related news, The Seattle Times yesterday published an article headlined “Once again, Magnuson the talk of Washington.”

“Parents, Children, Sex and Judges”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Medical marijuana case heads back to court”: Thursday’s edition of The Contra Costa Times contained this article.

“Abortion case could hinge on a vote by Alito”: This article appears today in The Washington Times.

The Boston Globe today contains an editorial entitled “Alito’s attitudes.”

And in The Los Angeles Times, Law Professor Goodwin Liu has an op-ed entitled “Life and death and Samuel Alito: All the attention being paid to the nominee’s position on abortion has diverted attention from his history with capital punishment.”

“Abortion law troubles both sides; Florida’s law requiring a teen to win judicial permission for an abortion without notifying her parents has critics questioning its efficacy”: The Miami Herald contains this article today.

“USU twins helped put Roberts on high court; Which one is which? Both land jobs on the Judiciary Committee and cause some double takes.” This article appears today in The Salt Lake Tribune.

“Why keep cameras out of the court? We can watch Paris having sex, but we can’t see our Supreme Court justices deliberate; Weird.” Columnist Steve Chapman has this op-ed today in The Chicago Tribune.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Alito’s Abortion Stance Tough to Decipher” and “Court to Weigh Never-Enforced Abortion Law.”

“As Execution Date Nears, Gang Founder Stirs Debate; Ex-Crips Leader Has High-Profile Supporters and Detractors”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Gov. to Consider Clemency for Killer.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Governor agrees to Williams hearing; Convicted killer gets closer to possible clemency.”

And The Sacramento Bee reports that “Governor to rule on Williams case; A private clemency hearing will be held by Schwarzenegger for Crips co-founder.”

The Los Angeles Times is reporting: Today’s newspaper contains articles headlined “Justice Is Another Victim of Katrina; Some suspects go free because the system lacks the means to charge them; more wait behind bars; And cases mount along with new crimes” and “Pregnant and Unwed, Teacher Fights Church; A civil liberties group files a complaint on behalf of a woman fired from a Catholic school.”

In Sunday’s issue of The New York Times: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain an article headlined “From Alito’s Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton.”

And Adam Liptak will report that “In Terror Cases, Administration Sets the Rules.”

“Alito Put Faith in the 1st Amendment; The nominee upheld the rights of many religions, a subject of perpetual disputes in the courts”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

Meanwhile, in commentary, The Birmingham News today contains an editorial entitled “The real truth about Sam Alito.”

And in The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, columnist Barry Saunders has an op-ed entitled “Judging a job application, 20 years on.”

“New Chief Justice Faces Abortion Issue; Ruling in Case Involving Parental Notification Could Be Far-Reaching”: Charles Lane will have this article Saturday in The Washington Post.

“Two guys are sitting on a desert island with their backs against a single palm tree. ‘I miss blogging.'” At McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Scott Underwood provides “In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons.”

“Court Nominee Deals With Ethics Criticism”: Gina Holland of The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “Judge Samuel Alito has said he did not break a federal ethics law when he ruled in a case involving the company that handles his mutual fund investments.”

“Military Recruiters on Campus”: This segment (RealPlayer required) appeared on this evening’s broadcast of NPR‘s “All Things Considered.”

“It is well-known that Henry J. Friendly was one of the greatest judges in our nation’s history…. What is not known is that in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade, Judge Friendly wrote an opinion in the first abortion-rights case ever filed in a federal court.” The text of D.C. Circuit Judge A. Raymond Randolph‘s Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Federalst Society‘s recent annual meeting, can be accessed here (via “Crime & Federalism“).

“Alito, Then and Now”: This editorial will appear in the December 5, 2005 issue of The Weekly Standard.

“Quest for a vow of silence: Ex-Roslyn schools chief’s longtime partner says judge should treat them like spouses and bar Tassone from testifying against him.” Yesterday’s edition of Newsday contained this article.

“Unfinished Transcripts May Nullify Convictions; An ex-court reporter in Colorado is ordered to finish the task for eight cases on appeal; Her refusal may send her to jail and trigger retrials”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Students join debate on intelligent design; Campus clubs set up to defend concept”: The Chicago Tribune contains this article today.

“Limits on Eminent Domain May Go Too Far, Experts Warn”: This segment (RealPlayer required) appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Morning Edition.”

“Political smears or free speech? Some in politics are suing others for defamation.” L. Stuart Ditzen has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.