“Obama About-Face Goes to High Court”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined “Sandra Day O’Connor: End judge elections in Wash.“;

“Military high court to hear Abu Ghraib appeals“; and

“Backers of gay marriage want to repeal federal law.”

“A Revealing Term: What difference will a ‘wise Latina’ make? And other questions.” Law professor Jonathan H. Adler has this essay today at National Review Online.

“How Liberals Can Win by Losing at the Roberts Court: Three strategies for turning a defeat into a (relative) victory.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen (author of the “Election Law” blog) has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Trial of John Roberts”: In yesterday’s edition of The New York Times, law professor Jeffrey Rosen had an op-ed that begins, “Four years ago, when John Roberts became chief justice of the United States, he said that he hoped to emulate the modesty and unanimity of his greatest predecessor, John Marshall. But if Chief Justice Roberts presides over a broad, ideologically divided ruling in a campaign finance case the court heard last week, he risks being remembered instead as a conservative Earl Warren.”

“Changing political money: There’s a middle ground open to the Supreme Court in a key case on corporate/union campaign speech.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Nahmias adds conservative voice to Ga. high court; Prosecutor replaces a liberal jurist Sears”: Bill Rankin has this article today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Bench Press: Obama and judicial restraint.” Jeffrey Toobin has this “Annals of Law” article in the September 21, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.