“Libby Trial to Display Changed Reporter-Source Relations”: Neil A. Lewis has this article today in The New York Times.

And in the January 29, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann has a Talk of the Town comment headlined “Hard Cases: What’s ultimately behind the Lewis Libby trial.”

“Politics and prosecutors”: The Chicago Tribune contains this editorial today.

“Financing terrorists is not about speech; The high court is right: Prosecuting alleged contributors to a ‘terrorist’ group isn’t a 1st Amendment issue.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Footnote on adultery turns into a spotlighted affair; A Michigan judge sparks debate after pointing out that extramarital sex can mean life in prison”: The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.

My earlier coverage appears at this link.

“Wiretap shift raises questions”: This editorial appears today in The St. Petersburg Times.

“Roe’s 34th year sees a new Washington”: The Washington Times today contains an article that begins, “Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, and as thousands descend on the District to protest abortion, some new twists have emerged on the political landscape, including a Democrat-controlled Congress, an upcoming Supreme Court decision and a burgeoning presidential race.”

The newspaper also contains an op-ed by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) entitled “Defend innocent life.”

“Case of the Paralegal Who Played a Lawyer Raises Many Questions”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

“Book Excerpt: ‘Supreme Conflict’; Jan Crawford Greenburg’s New Book Takes an Unprecedented Look Into the History of the Supreme Court.” ABC News has today posted online this lengthy excerpt from Jan Crawford Greenburg’s new book, “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court and America’s Future.”

“Fair Housing, Free Speech and Choosy Roommates”: Starting today, Adam Liptak of The New York Times will have a weekly column about the legal world that will appear on Mondays. The debut installment can be accessed here (TimesSelect temporary pass-through link).

“Al-Arian: I Was Double-Crossed.” Today in The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, “A Florida college professor who has pleaded guilty to aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami Al-Arian, contends in a new appeals court filing that federal prosecutors double-crossed him by calling him in front of a grand jury in Virginia after he agreed to a plea bargain.”

“Difference of Opinion: Can John Roberts make the justices chill out?” Benjamin Wittes has this essay online today at the web site of The New Republic.

“Christmas For Exxon: How a Federal Appeals Court Reduced the Punitive Damage Award in the Exxon Valdez Case by $2 Billion, and Why It Appears Arbitrary.” Carl Tobias today has this essay online at FindLaw.

“Blawg Review #92”: Available here, at “Legal Andrew.”

“Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers”: This article will appear Monday in The New York Times.

“The Miers Mess”: ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg has this post today at her new blog, “Legalities.”

Jan’s book — “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court and America’s Future” — will go on sale nationwide on Tuesday. My local Barnes & Noble retailer couldn’t wait till Tuesday, so the book is on sale there right now. And a reader has emailed that Barnes&Noble.com has already delivered the copy of the book that he ordered online.

“Open or shut: Hicks case may be empty.” Monday’s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald contains an article that begins, “The two embassies that David Hicks was accused of staking out as part of his al-Qaeda training were abandoned at the time.”

And Monday’s edition of The Australian reports that “Hicks to face reduced charges.”

“Supreme Court, Churchill version; Mock trial by students at Livonia high school based on case involving Alaska teen”: This article appears today in The Detroit Free Press.

“Mental health issue drives abortion debate”: The Wichita Eagle today contains an article that begins, “When a fetus is healthy, a woman can have a late abortion in Kansas only if doctors say it is necessary to save her life or to prevent ‘substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.’ That includes damage to her mental health. To abortion opponents, the mental health exception is a loophole that allows abortion late in pregnancy. To abortion-rights supporters, it is a necessity that allows women, their families and their doctors to decide what to do about crisis pregnancies.”

“Texas Horse Slaughterhouses Violate Law, Court Says”: Bloomberg News provides this report.

And commonhorsesense.com has issued a news release that begins, “The decision by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals comes as a complete surprise, because the lower court had rendered a well reasoned decision based on the merits of the case.”

My earlier coverage appears here, here, and here.

“A Retreat on Wiretapping? Congress needs to verify before trusting that adequate protections are in place.” This editorial appears today in The Washington Post.

The New York Times today contains an editorial entitled “Retreat and Cheat .”

And in The Chicago Tribune, columnist Steve Chapman has an op-ed entitled “Never mind what we said about spying.”

“Don’t rush to judge this court; Missourians are working to name a courthouse after native son Rush Limbaugh–but not the one you think”: The Chicago Tribune contains this article today.

“At the Supreme Court, an unlikely new hero; Afghanistan’s chief justice has launched a quiet revolution, targeting corrupt judges and demanding accountability in the country’s long-inept judiciary”: This article appears today in The Chicago Tribune.

“Judges: Plants must be closed.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram today contains an article that begins, “Two North Texas horse-slaughtering plants, which annually process thousands of pounds of horsemeat for human consumption overseas, are violating a 1949 state law and must shut down, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.”

The Dallas Morning News reports today that “Horse meat ban is upheld; Court ruling could shut down two area slaughterhouses.”

And The Associated Press provides a report headlined “Court: No horse slaughtering in Texas.”

My earlier coverage appears at this link.

“Democrats Seek to Avert Abortion Clashes; Leaders Back Bills to Increase Aid for Family Planning, Pregnancy Support”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Behind-the-Scenes White House Drama: How Alberto Gonzales tried to block Harriet Miers’ Supreme Court nomination.” You can access the video clip of Jan Crawford Greenburg’s appearance this morning on the ABC News program “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” by clicking here.

“Former ‘enemy combatant’ Padilla insists he’s sane”: Reuters provides this report.

“Corporations Decry Official’s Detainee Screed; Remarks on detainees cement bond between firms and corporate clients”: This article (free access) will appear in Monday’s issue of Legal Times.

That publication will also contain an essay by Theodore B. Olson and Neal Katyal entitled “We Want Tough Arguments: When Top Advocates Stand Up For Uncle Sam and Detainees, America Gets the Best Law” (free access).

And Monday’s issue of The National Law Journal will contain an editorial entitled “Unpopular clients” (free access).

In the January 29, 2007 issue of Time magazine: The issue, which will go on sale Monday, will contain articles headlined “So, Who’s Your Daddy? How men are pushing laws to free them from child support when DNA shows they’re not the real father” and “Forced into the Spotlight: In sexual-assault suits, people are told the identity of the accused; Why not the accuser?”

“[Today] on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, I’ll tell some of the details behind the failed nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.” So writes ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg at her new blog, “Legalities.” More information about today’s broadcast can be accessed here.

Update: For those who missed this morning’s broadcast, ABC News has posted at its web site an item headlined “Greenburg: AG Opposed Miers Nomination; ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg Says Alberto Gonzalez Vainly Tried to Dissuade Bush.”

“Affirmative Action, Again: The Supreme Court may signal the beginning of the end.” This article appears in the Winter 2007 issue of Harvard Political Review.

“Child support limits face test: Mom asks court for $28K a month.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today contains an article that begins, “At last count, Florida attorney Willie Gary raked in roughly $1 million a month.”

“No Defense: Shortcut to Death Row.” Stephen Henderson, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for McClatchy Newspapers, today has a series of related articles headlined “Indefensible? Lawyers in key death penalty states often fall short“; “Nonstop to the death house: Appeals courts often overlook lawyers’ errors“; “Between life and death: A group of young lawyers is some prisoners’ only hope“; and “Mississippi case inspired death penalty investigation.”

“Is there a post-abortion syndrome? The next Roe v. Wade fight.” Emily Bazelon will have this cover story in tomorrow’s issue of The New York Times Magazine.

“Illiniwek fight gets a twist; Tribal official says he has headdress Sioux want back”: Sunday’s edition of The Chicago Tribune will contain an article that begins, “Last week’s demand by the Oglala Sioux tribe that the University of Illinois return the regalia used by Chief Illiniwek, especially an eagle-feathered war bonnet, caught many by surprise. The request particularly puzzled some university officials, who believed the headdress had been returned to the tribe in the early 1990s. On Friday they found written evidence that they were right, and a tribal official acknowledged that he has the headgear, including the eagle feathers.”

And The News-Gazette of Champaign, Illinois reports that “Trustees chairman says Chief issue will be resolved this year.”

My most recent earlier coverage can be accessed at this link.

“Federal Appeals Court Declares Horse Slaughter in Texas Illegal; Two of the Nation’s Three Horse Slaughter Plants Face Closure, Criminal Charges”: The Humane Society of the United States has issued this press release.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s ruling appears at this link.