“Southwick opposition steeped in hypocrisy”: Sid Salter has this op-ed today in The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi.

“Reading the Constitution Right: Clarence Thomas’s fidelity to our founding documents is making its mark on the Supreme Court..” Law Professor Stephen B. Presser has this article in the Spring 2007 issue of City Journal.

“Charles Pickering Gets the Last Word: A maligned civil rights hero, the changing South, and the future of the courts.” City Journal has today posted online an essay by Harry Stein that begins, “Mention the name Charles Pickering to anyone but the most committed news junkie, and you’re apt to get a blank look or, at best, one of dim recognition. In the era of the 24-hour news cycle aimed at the ever-shortening attention span, the bitter Senate battles over the federal judiciary in which Pickering played so dramatic a part a few years back can seem like ancient history.”

In commentary from The Chicago Tribune: Today’s newspaper contains an editorial entitled “Detainees and delays.”

And yesterday’s newspaper contained an editorial entitled “Bad words and the FCC.”

“Justices on Trial: Can Senate confirmation ever be less tortuous?” In the June 18, 2007 issue of The Weekly Standard, Edward Whelan will have this review of Benjamin Wittes’s book, “Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times.”

“Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties; Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped”: This front page article will appear Monday in The Washington Post.

“Inconvenient Truth”: In tomorrow’s issue of CQ Weekly, columnist Kenneth Jost will have an essay that begins, “As Justice Clarence Thomas recounted the case, Jeffrey Landrigan was an uncooperative murder defendant who gave his lawyer no help in finding evidence to spare him the death penalty.”

“Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo”: This article will appear Monday in The Washington Post.

“Conservatives Worry About Court Vacancies”: Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Michael Abramowitz have an article that begins, “A White House failure to move quickly to fill judicial openings around the country is fueling concern among conservative allies that President Bush may miss an opportunity to use his final months in office to continue putting his stamp on the federal judiciary.”

The article reports, among other things, that U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has asked the White House to nominate attorney Carolyn P. Short for the Philadelphia-based vacancy that now exists on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Pakistan’s suspended judge to face new complaint”: Reuters provides a report that begins, “Pakistan’s government has prepared a new misconduct complaint against the suspended chief judge, the law minister said on Sunday, raising the stakes in a three-month-old dispute that has sparked street protests.”

In Monday’s issue of The Christian Science Monitor: Tomorrow’s newspaper will contain articles headlined “From Gitmo cell to ‘freedom’ in Albania: Abu Muhammad, an Algerian doctor, is one of eight former Guantanamo detainees who were granted asylum in Albania” and “Unlikely popular heroes of Pakistan’s opposition: lawyers; Thousands of lawyers have taken to the streets to protest Musharraf’s controversial dismissal of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.”

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Loving Reflects on Interracial Marriage“; “Powell Calls for Closing Guantanamo Bay“; “Studies Say Death Penalty Deters Crime“; “Jailed Chinese Reporter Joins Yahoo Suit“; “Durham DA Heads to Trial Over Duke Case“; and “Prisons Ban Books Over Fear of Radicals.”

“Stacking juries toward death”: The Boston Globe contains this editorial today.

Paris Hilton is not appealing: So reports The Associated Press.

Update: And The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Paris Hilton says she will not file appeal; Heiress issues a statement saying that she intends to fulfill the remainder of her 23-day sentence in jail.”

“Chinese Leave Guantanamo for Albanian Limbo”: The New York Times contains this article today.

“F.B.I. Agent Tells Padilla Jury of Coded Plans for Jihad”: This article appeared Saturday in The New York Times.

Saturday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times reported that “Padilla jury hears him talk in cryptic decade-old call; In it, the terrorism defendant tells his alleged recruiter that he is ready for his mission.”

And The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported on Saturday that “Calls tie Padilla to terror, prosecutors say.”