“Solicitor General Revises Data on Federal Juvenile Sentences”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Gun rights could pose problem for Kagan; The Supreme Court nominee’s stance isn’t clear, but the powerful NRA sees enough to be worried”: James Oliphant will have this article Friday in The Los Angeles Times.

And Friday’s edition of The Washington Post will report that “Kagan, as Harvard law school dean, pursued two courses on ‘don’t ask’ policy.”

“Yakima murder conviction overturned by state Supreme Court”: The Yakima Herald-Republic has a news update that begins, “The state Supreme Court released an opinion this morning overturning a 2007 Yakima County murder conviction on the grounds that holding the trial in the county’s jailhouse courtroom was prejudicial.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Wash. court: Jail trial unfair to murder defendant.”

Today’s ruling of the Washington State Supreme Court consists of a majority opinion, two concurring opinions (here and here), and two dissenting opinions (here and here).

“Kagan gets boost from potential GOP allies”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Justice Scalia: Kagan’s lack of judicial experience no bar to Supreme Court.” Robert Barnes has this article today in The Washington Post.

The Associated Press has a report headlined “Former justice: Judicial experience not an issue.”

Politico.com has an article headlined “W.H. rolls out Kagan narrative” and an op-ed by Tevi Troy entitled “Don’t expect much from Kagan e-mails.”

And in today’s edition of USA Today, Tony Mauro has an op-ed entitled “For Kagan, craftiness and candor are key to hearings.”

“Judge: bloggers’ conduct ‘pretty sad.'” Josh Gerstein has this post at his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com.

The Associated Press is reporting: The Associated Press has an article headlined “Justice Souter may be retired, but he still works.”

And in other news, “O’Connor, in NY, gives schools poor civics marks.”