“Innocence testing on back burner; $8M targeted for DNA appeals gathering dust”: Richard Willing has this front page article today in USA Today.

“Bush Faces an End-of-Term Slowdown on Appellate-Court Nominees”: James Rowley of Bloomberg News provides a report that begins, “President George W. Bush wants to fill 15 U.S. appeals-court vacancies before he leaves office in January 2009. The Democratic-controlled Senate is likely to approve fewer than half that number. Which nominees make it will largely depend on their political connections, and luck.”