“Holder Laughed: The attorney general tries to sell us on New York terror trials.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Judge Thomas Porteous’ behavior prompts questions about entire New Orleans area judiciary”: The Times-Picayune has this news update.

Yesterday’s edition of that newspaper had an update headlined “Wheels of Congress grind slowly in Judge Thomas Porteous impeachment.”

And yesterday at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Jeff Jeffrey had a post titled “At Porteous Hearing, Lawyer Says No Return Expected on Cash Gifts to Judge.”

“Conviction of Sheik’s Lawyer for Assisting Terrorism Is Upheld”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, “A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Lynne F. Stewart, the outspoken defense lawyer who was found guilty in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling information from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt.”

The New York Post reports today that “Harder time urged for jailbound Lynne.”

law.com reports that “2nd Circuit Upholds Disbarred Lawyer’s Conviction in Terror Case.”

And the blog “Gawker” has a post titled “Activist Judges Affirm Activist Attorney’s Conviction.”

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

“Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case”: The Associated Press has this report.

And at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Leahy wants TV feed of KSM trial for victims.”

Good thing The New York Times doesn’t provide Justice Anthony M. Kennedy with pre-publication review: Or else he probably would have killed what he refers to as this “stupid story” by Adam Liptak, which the newspaper published one week ago, and thereby would have denied us the spectacle of today’s flap over the article’s newsworthiness.

Today in The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin has articles headlined “Kennedy Frustrated Over School-Press Flap” and “Justice Kennedy’s Day of Misunderstanding.” Although Justice Kennedy calls the subject matter of Liptak’s article “stupid,” Justice Kennedy does not dispute the accuracy of what Liptak has reported.