“The Kagan Kids: Why the younger generation doesn’t care about the debate over the latest Supreme Court nominee.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Bagram: a legal black hole? Prisoners held there are not allowed to seek writs of habeas corpus, a U.S. appeals court rules; It could lead to abuses.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Kagan sparks little debate as hearings approach”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Senators will have less background on Kagan to help make Supreme Court decision”: Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, law professor John Yoo has an op-ed entitled “An Executive Without Much Privilege” that begins, “Presidential power has emerged as a potential topic of controversy in the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.”

“Video at Wone trial shows detective pressing defendant Dylan Ward”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“Bill Puts Scrutiny on Detainees’ Lawyers”: Charlie Savage has this article today in The New York Times.

“Conviction overturned on unconventional orders”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has this article reporting on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“NFL sacked by Supreme Court”: Fred Barbash has this article today at Politico.com.

“Klobuchar raps WaPo story on Kagan style”: Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.