“Supreme Court ruling shakes up criminal trials; Cases have been thrown out and doubts linger after last month’s decision giving defendants the right to question forensic technicians in court”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Amid Scrutiny, Yoo Pushes Back; Quietly but Forcefully, Author of Detainee Memos Rebuts Critics”: Carrie Johnson will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

“Judicial Roulette”: In the Sunday Book Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times, Adam Liptak has this review of the new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James MacGregor Burns, “Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court.”

“Ala. senator mum on his decision about Sotomayor”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he has made up his mind on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, but he’s not ready to make his decision public.”

“An Abortion Battle, Fought to the Death”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

And The Associated Press reports that “Suspect in Kan. abortion killing faces hearing.”

Bashman news from here and there: Monday’s edition of The Cairns Post of Australia reports that “Party bash man dies in hospital.”