The Associated Press is reporting: “Court to decide if prosecutors can be sued“;

“Court turns down challenge to jury’s use of Bible“; and

“Va. whistleblower loses bid for reinstatement.”

“Crush with Eyeliner”: At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston reports that “Court to rule on First Amendment exception.”

And The Associated Press reports that “High court to review pit bull case.”

You can access today’s Order List of the Supreme Court of the United States at this link.

The en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this case can be accessed here. Some of this blog’s earlier coverage of the case can be accessed here and here.

The video of the R.E.M. song that provides the title for this post can be viewed by clicking here.

“Annals Of Impeachment: Oust Bybee? Times’ Call For Judge’s Impeachment Reflects Widespread Frustration With Obama’s Inaction On Torture.” CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has this “CourtWatch” essay.

I linked to the editorial to which Cohen is referring in this post from Saturday night.

“Mental damage from CIA tactics is disputed; Justice Department memos say no permanent harm was inflicted from interrogation techniques, but some doctors and psychologists disagree”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

The New York Times reports today that “Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects.”

The Washington Post reports that “Emanuel Rejects Trial for Memos’ Authors.”

And in The Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey have an op-ed entitled “The Memos Prove We Didn’t Torture: The Red Cross was completely wrong about ‘walling.’”

“Unreasonable Search”: The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, “The Supreme Court has long struggled to balance the privacy rights of students against schools’ need to keep campuses safe.”

And today’s edition of The Washington Post contains an editorial entitled “Strip Searches in School: The Supreme Court must weigh the rights of students against the duty of school officials to protect safety.”

“Justices to hear Ariz. case; U.S. high court may settle English-learner controversy”: This article appears today in The Arizona Republic.

Today in The Arizona Daily Star, Howard Fischer reports that “Justices get AZ bilingual case today; US Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether state meets language orders.”

The Associated Press reports that “Court to weigh state’s duty to English learners.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contains an audio segment entitled “Supreme Court Hears Case On English In Schools” (RealPlayer required) featuring Nina Totenberg.

“The New Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Are Gunning For Obama’s Judicial Nominees: A Republican Strategy That We Must All Hope Fails.” John W. Dean has this essay online at FindLaw.

“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.

“Preview: Strip-search of students.” Lyle Denniston has this oral argument preview at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Conservatives gaining sway on a liberal bastion; The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has been resolving disputes for 150 years in a region once prone to settling differences with pistols; Despite today’s decorum, ideological gunfights still blaze”: Carol J. Williams will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.

“High Court Poised To Closely Weigh Civil Rights Laws; Cases Heard as Nation Debates Race”: Robert Barnes will have this article Sunday in The Washington Post.

“Justice Dept. Memos’ Careful Legalese Obscured Harsh Reality”: Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain a news analysis that begins, “The four Justice Department memos to the CIA’s top lawyer that were released last week reflect an effort by Bush administration appointees to create finely tuned justifications for harsh interrogation techniques, all under a blanket of secrecy covering the agency’s prisons and the questioning.”

And Sunday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an editorial entitled “The Torturers” Manifesto.”

“Abortion notification bill stalls in Senate health committee; Health committee chairwoman says it needs more work”: The Anchorage Daily News today contains an article that begins, “The Legislature dealt another blow to Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday when a bill requiring girls under 17 to tell their parents they’re about to have an abortion failed to move from committee, effectively ending its chance of passage this year.”

“Interior won’t challenge rule on guns in parks”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Obama administration said Friday it will not appeal a federal court ruling that prohibits carrying loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.”

“Palin to make 3rd Supreme Court pick; Justice Eastaugh to retire Nov. 2”: The Anchorage Daily News today contains an article that begins, “Gov. Sarah Palin will soon get to appoint a third Alaska Supreme Court justice, which means she will have named a majority of the five-member court in less than three years in office.”

“Reverse discrimination case could transform hiring”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Missouri Brakes: The Sue Me State reconsiders judicial selection.” Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial that begins, “The Missouri plan for choosing judges may be the law of the land in some two dozen states, but its home court is having second thoughts.”

“Which way will Roberts court go in racial discrimination case?” Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Drilling off Alaska can’t proceed without further environmental review; An appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn’t adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas”: The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s D.C. Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Did waterboarding work? The White House and Senate are studying whether harsh interrogation tactics were effective; The reports may determine whether the methods banned by President Obama will ever be used again by the U.S.” This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

The Washington Post reports today that “Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations; Extent of Health Professionals’ Role at CIA Prisons Draws Fresh Outrage From Ethicists.”

And The New York Times reports that “Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure.”

“Justice Stevens Renders an Opinion on Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays; It Wasn’t the Bard of Avon, He Says; ‘Evidence Is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt'”: Jess Bravin has this front page article today in The Wall Street Journal.

“Final Arguments of Supreme Court Term Filled With Big Cases”: law.com’s Tony Mauro has this report.

“Released Memos Could Lead to More Disclosures”: Saturday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, “Even as President Obama urges the country to turn the page, his decision to reveal exhaustive details about interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency will likely lead to a flood of new disclosures about secret Bush administration operations against Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.”

The Associated Press reports that “CIA objections slowed torture memos release.”

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Over It: America’s quick recovery from its torture program suggests it wasn’t a torture program in the first place.”

“US seeks clear path to Demjanjuk deportation”: The Associated Press has this report.

You can access at this link a letter that the federal government filed today in this matter in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

“Court Rules for IRS in Dispute with Mayer Brown”: At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post that begins, “Mayer Brown is not entitled to certain Internal Revenue Service documents under the Freedom of Information Act because disclosing the information could allow tax cheats to one-up investigators, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Appeals court cancels offshore drilling program”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“GOP Displays Intramural Feud on Judges”: At the “Legal Beat” blog of CQ Politics, Seth Stern has a post that begins, “Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania told a Republican lawyers group Friday their party should take the filibuster off the table as an option against President Obama’s judicial nominations.”

“White House Release of Interrogation Memos May Turn Up Heat on 9th Circuit Judge”: law.com has this report.

The New York Times reports today that “Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.”

The Washington Post reports today that “New Interrogation Details Emerge; As It Releases Justice Dept. Memos, Administration Reassures CIA Questioners.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “Memos reveal harsh CIA interrogation methods; Obama releases Justice Department documents that guided the CIA on how to use waterboarding and other tactics with terror suspects; Intelligence officials won’t be prosecuted over the interrogations.”

The Chicago Tribune reports that “Obama says no prosecutions as Bush-era memos on terror tactics released.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “CIA Memos Released; Immunity for Harsh Tactics.” In addition, Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey have an op-ed entitled “The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror; The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession.”

USA Today contains an article headlined “Obama: CIA questioners won’t face charges; Released Justice memos shed light on harsh interrogation techniques.”

The Washington Times reports that “Obama releases memos detailing interrogations; CIA personnel won’t face prosecution.”

Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers have an article headlined “Bush-era interrogations: From waterboarding to forced nudity.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Terror memos authorized harsh interrogation techniques; Obama releases four secret memos detailing detainee treatment under Bush; Human rights groups slam his promise not to prosecute intelligence officials.”

The Associated Press reports that “Obama won’t charge CIA officers for rough tactics.”

And Bloomberg News reports that “Obama Says U.S. Terror Memos Expose ‘Dark and Painful Chapter.’”

Yesterday, the ACLU issued a news release entitled “Justice Department Releases Bush Administration Torture Memos; Bradbury And Bybee Memos Are Released In Response To Long-Running ACLU Lawsuits.” The organization has posted the newly released memos online here, here, here, and here.