“Should Texas judges be appointed instead of elected? Huge political hurdles impede efforts to end judicial elections in Texas.” Chuck Lindell will have this article Monday in The Austin American-Statesman.

“Minn. Senate case tests court that shuns politics”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Republican Norm Coleman’s next and possibly last gambit for regaining his U.S. Senate seat will come before a Minnesota Supreme Court that seems built to his advantage: Five of the seven justices were put there by Republican governors.”

“Does Arizona’s system serve? After 17 years, Flores English suit goes to high court.” Sarah Garrecht Gassen has this op-ed today in The Arizona Daily Star.

“It’s a woman’s world on the Tennessee Supreme Court; Three woman who make up majority on Tennessee’s Supreme Court say law wasn’t first choice on career list”: This article appears today in The Knoxville News Sentinel.

“Supreme Court’s bench has never been less diverse: Race and gender are important, but with six Harvard justices, President Obama should consider geographic, professional, and social backgrounds, too, when he evaluates nominees.” On Friday, The Christian Science Monitor posted online this essay by Ronald Sokol.

“Supreme Court to get Ariz. teen strip-search case”: The Associated Press has this report.

In the April 27, 2009 issue of Newsweek: Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas have an article headlined “The Lawyer and The Caterpillar: Torture is a complicated business, and the real world is never as neat as the imagined one.”

And Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas have an article headlined “The Long Arm of the Law: A looming battle over the role foreign judges should play in U.S. courts.”

“Strip-searches at schools go to Supreme Court; In an Arizona case, administrators were worried about campus safety, while the student just felt humiliated”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.