ABCNews.com is reporting: Available online are articles headlined “AG Opinion: No Execution for 9/11 Plotters; Mukasey Expresses Personal Opinion About the Fate of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators” and “Online Speech Pits Students vs. Teachers; Pranks Bring Punishment — and Free Speech Lawsuits.”
“C.I.A. Secretly Held Qaeda Suspect, Officials Say”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “The Central Intelligence Agency secretly detained a suspected member of Al Qaeda for at least six months beginning last summer as part of a program in which C.I.A. officers have been authorized by President Bush to use harsh interrogation techniques, American officials said Friday.”
And The Los Angeles Times reports today that “High Al Qaeda figure captured, Pentagon says; Muhammad Rahim arrives at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; He allegedly helped Osama bin Laden flee Afghanistan in 2001.”
The Associated Press is reporting: Hope Yen has an article headlined “Media Shield Law Remains in Doubt.”
And an article headlined “Court Overturns Sentence in TV Show Scam” reports on a non-precedential ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Wednesday.
“Supreme Court Inc.: How the nation’s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business.” Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen will have this cover story in tomorrow’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.
“Justice and the Press: Why should reporters have a ‘privilege’ to avoid telling the truth in court?” Mark A. Grannis, attorney for Steven Hatfill, has this op-ed today in The Wall Street Journal.
“Moving Targets: The solicitor general is the latest target in the showdown over guns.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
And on Thursday, Dahlia served as moderator of a program titled “The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court” (video available via that link) hosted by the American Constitution Society.