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Monday, May 25, 2009

“Ex-Detainee Describes Struggle for Exoneration; In France, Algerian Savors Normal Life”: Tuesday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain an article that begins, “When the nightmare finally ended — seven years at Guantanamo Bay, two years of force-feeding through a tube in his right nostril, the long struggle to proclaim his innocence before a judge, and finally 10 days of hospitalization — Lakhdar Boumediene celebrated with pizza for lunch in a little Paris dive.”

Posted at 10:22 PM by Howard Bashman



“California Couples Await Gay Marriage Ruling”: This article will appear Tuesday in The New York Times.

And Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an article headlined “Gay-Marriage Fight to Persist in California.”

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of California will issue its ruling on three consolidated cases that challenge the legality of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that reinstated California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The decision is scheduled to be posted online at this link at 1 p.m. eastern time (10 a.m. pacific time) tomorrow.

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Liberals Sketch Out Dreams and Limits for Supreme Court”: Jess Bravin will have this article Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

Tuesday in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes will have an article headlined “More Than One Way to Diversify the Supreme Court; Beyond Race and Gender, Today’s Justices are Homogenous.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment entitled “Groups Prepare For Battle Over Court Nominee” (RealPlayer required) featuring Nina Totenberg.

Posted at 8:47 PM by Howard Bashman



“Official: Obama still deciding whether 9/11 case goes to U.S. court.” Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update that begins, “President Barack Obama is still deciding whether to go to federal court with the death penalty cases against five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Defense Department official has notified the thousands of victim family members.”

Posted at 8:40 PM by Howard Bashman



“A golden opportunity to revamp the Voting Rights Act: The Supreme Court appears poised to strike down a key provision of the act; Liberals are worried, but it might be good for the country because the act needs to be brought into the 21st century.” Law professors Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

Posted at 4:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Obama Seeks ‘Common Touch’ in His Supreme Court Nominee; Short-List Narrows, Buzz Intensifies Over the Supreme Court Vacancy”: ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg has this written report.

Bill Mears of CNN.com has an article headlined “Uneasy political calculus of diversity and Supreme Court.”

Yesterday in The Boston Globe, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow had an Ideas essay entitled “Supreme Reforms: How the nation’s highest court could be improved.”

And at his “Think Again” blog hosted by The New York Times, Stanley Fish has a post titled “Empathy and the Law.”

Posted at 4:08 PM by Howard Bashman