“Detainees Barred From Access to U.S. Courts”: Charlie Savage has this front page article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage and Christi Parsons have an article headlined “Court: No habeas rights for prisoners in Afghanistan; Obama wins what Bush sought: the right to hold suspects without judicial oversight at the Bagram air base.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has an article headlined “Court: Bagram prisoners don’t have Guantanamo habeas rights.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that “Detainees held by US in Afghanistan can’t contest custody, court finds; Friday’s ruling is a victory for the US government, which seeks to hold enemy combatants indefinitely at Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base; Detainees’ lawyers had argued for judicial oversight.”

Evan Perez of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Court Rules Against Detainees at Bagram.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Marcia Coyle has a post titled “Bagram Detainees Have No Habeas Rights.”

“Medical Examiner Testifies About Knife in Wone Case”: Mike Scarcella has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Kagan’s Writings Back Wider Executive Powers”: Charlie Savage has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Boston Globe, columnist Renee Loth has an op-ed entitled “Kagan and the power elite.”

And yesterday’s edition of The Washington Post contained an op-ed by Robert Merrill entitled “A veteran’s Harvard ally: Elena Kagan” and an op-ed by David N. Bossie entitled “Elena Kagan: Hostile to free speech?”

“Defiant Judge Takes On Child Pornography Law”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains a front page article by A.G. Sulzberger that begins, “In his 43-year career as a federal judge, Jack B. Weinstein has come to be identified by his efforts to combat what he calls ‘the unnecessary cruelty of the law.’ His most recent crusade is particularly striking because of the beneficiary: a man who has amassed a vast collection of child pornography.”