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Saturday, July 21, 2007

“High Court Reinstates Pakistan’s Chief Judge; Decision a Key Setback For Faltering Musharraf”: The Washington Post contains this front page article today.

The New York Times reports today that “Musharraf Loses Fight Over Suspension of Judge.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Pakistani court reinstates top judge; The unanimous ruling is a blow to Musharraf, whose grip has faltered amid a pro-democracy movement.”

And from National Public Radio, yesterday’s broadcast of “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Pakistan High Court Rejects Judge’s Suspension.” Yesterday’s broadcast of “Day to Day” contained an audio segment entitled “Pakistan’s High Court Reverses Judge’s Suspension.” And yesterday evening’s broadcast of “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “Pakistan’s High Court Rules Against President.” RealPlayer is required to launch these audio segments.

Posted at 4:33 PM by Howard Bashman



“Prosecutor Fitzgerald gets light grilling; He tapes a guest appearance on an NPR comic radio segment and gets his own scooter, a red two-wheeler”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

The New York Times today contains an article headlined “A Prosecutor Out of Character on the Air.”

Friday’s edition of The Chicago Tribune reported that “U.S. attorney allows himself to be quizzed.”

And yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment entitled “Quiz Show Draws U.S. Attorney” (RealPlayer required) featuring Nina Totenberg.

Posted at 4:11 PM by Howard Bashman



“Scalia Will Have Orthodox Jewish Law Clerk In 2008”: The “Religion Clause” blog has this post linking to an item from The Forward that begins, “What’s a nice Jewish boy from Toronto doing working for an Italian Catholic, staunchly conservative, notoriously confrontational judge in Washington? That’s a question for Yaakov Roth, the Harvard Law School grad who was recently hired by Justice Antonin Scalia to work as a Supreme Court law clerk, beginning in July 2008.”

Posted at 1:48 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Sky’s Still Up There”: ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg, at her blog “Legalities,” has a post that begins, “Kathleen Sullivan, the former dean of Stanford Law School (who would be on any Democratic president’s shortlist for the Supreme Court), said the other day that conservatives should be ‘dancing in the streets’ at the end of the first full term of the Roberts Court.”

Posted at 1:45 PM by Howard Bashman