“Lawmakers in Many States Pushing for Abortion Curbs”: This article will appear Saturday in The New York Times.

“Should They Stay or Should They Go? Some Supreme Court justices are still in a snit over last year’s State of the Union speech.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court to rule on lawyers’ freedoms”: Today’s edition of The Montreal Gazette contains an article that begins, “When can a lawyer criticize a judge? Lawyers — as well as judges and professional orders representing lawyers across Canada — will be closely watching the outcome of a Supreme Court of Canada case that begins next Wednesday.”

“Justice Scalia set to address Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

“Year after ruling: Right gloats, left vows fight.” Politico.com has a report that begins, “The first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was marked Friday in classically Washington fashion — with protests, press conferences, dueling panel discussions and talk of a new effort by liberal groups to expose some of the conservative nonprofit groups that took advantage of the ruling to spend millions of dollars on political ads.”

Fourth Circuit affirms dismissal for lack of standing of lawsuit challenging federal funding of research involving embryonic stem cells: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

“Judge Tacha to take senior status”: Today’s edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal contains an article that begins, “President Barack Obama is getting his first chance to pick a Kansan for the federal appeals court that serves Kansas and five other states, The Topeka Capital-Journal has learned. His opportunity arises from an unpublicized decision by longtime Judge Deanell Reece Tacha, of Lawrence, to switch from full-time service on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to senior judge status.”

“Debate over expenditures highlights rift on state high court; Issues to be publicly discussed Jan. 31”: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains this article today.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports today that “Supreme Court funds dispute set to spill into public arena.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Wis. justices quibble over money, accountability.”

“A Year Later, Citizens United Reshapes Politics”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, David N. Bossie and Theodore B. Olson have an op-ed entitled “A victory for independent speech.”

And in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, law professor Joel M. Gora has an op-ed entitled “A Free Speech Anniversary: One year ago the Supreme Court affirmed that individuals don’t lose their rights when they organize as a corporation.” You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google News.

“Roberts Decision on Attending Obama ‘Pep Rally’ to Send Message”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.