“Sensitivity to ‘ordinary Americans’ a key criterion of court nominees”: Robert Barnes and Anne E. Kornblut will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

Monday’s edition of The New York Times will contain an article headlined “In Court Nominees, Is Obama Looking for Empathy by Another Name?”

And The Hill reports that “Black Caucus meeting to plot its strategy for Supreme Court nod.”

“Court fight looms on new immigration law; Legislation vulnerable to challenge, says expert; supporters argue it’s legally sound”: This article appears today in The Arizona Republic.

“Granholm: I would be ‘unconventional’ pick for Stevens’ Supreme Court seat.” The Hill has this blog post today.

And The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Granholm: High court nominee not have to be judge.”

“Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures; The case could decide whether signing a petition for a ballot measure is private or whether the names of signers can be made public”: This article appears today in The Seattle Times.

Les Blumenthal of McClatchy Newspapers has an article headlined “Supreme Court case: Do gay rights foes have right to privacy?”

And Harriet Robbins Ost of UPI has an article headlined “U.S. Supreme Court: LGBTs and conservatives ironically switch positions in petition-signing disclosure case.”

“State’s death penalty: a hollow promise? ‘The death penalty in California doesn’t really exist,’ one victim’s father says of a system that has been declared dysfunctional by a state commission.” The San Diego Union-Tribune contains this article today.

“Biotech crops go before Supreme Court this week”: This article appears today in The Des Moines Register.

“Inside the Ninth Circuit”: John Schwartz has this post at “The Bay Area” blog of The New York Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court: For some, the hell of what might have been.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“Mardi Gras coconut sets off a legal drama; A woman files a negligence suit after she says she was struck in the head during a New Orleans parade”: This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“‘Liberal’ Reputation Precedes Ninth Circuit Court”: John Schwartz has this article today in The New York Times.

Today’s edition of The Washington Post contains an editorial entitled “Judging Mr. Liu.”

And in The San Francisco Chronicle, columnist Debra J. Saunders has an op-ed headlined “Gordon [sic] Liu — wrong man for the Ninth Circuit.”