“A Grisly Murder Trial, in 140-Character Bits”: This article appears today in The New York Times.

“Long Battle by Foes of Campaign Finance Rules Shifts Landscape”: Eric Lichtblau has this article today in The New York Times.

“Court to rethink rule on day workers seeking jobs”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “In a case that could affect dozens of communities in California, a federal appeals court agreed Friday to reconsider a ruling allowing cities to prohibit day laborers from soliciting work from passing drivers.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

My post on the original three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here. Therein, I observed that “This case may be a strong candidate for rehearing en banc as the dispositive vote on the three-judge panel came from a U.S. District Judge sitting by designation.”

“Supreme Court notebook: State of Union no-show.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

On Wednesday, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. delivered the Wriston Lecture at the Manhattan Institute. You can view video of Justice Alito’s address, titled “Let Judges Be Judges,” by clicking here.