“Justice Clarence Thomas Delights Audiences at Ave Maria and Naples”: The Ave Herald has this report.

“Doing the Judicial Math on Health Care”: Adam Liptak will have this article in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Slain U.S. judge’s ruling upheld in immigrant case”: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “A federal appeals court has upheld $78,000 in damages to illegal immigrants who were held at gunpoint by a rancher in the southern Arizona desert, a case that prompted death threats against a federal judge who was fatally shot last month in Tucson.”

The Los Angeles Times reports today that “Court upholds verdict against Arizona rancher who detained illegal immigrants on his land; A federal appeals court rules that Arizona rancher Roger Barnett must pay $87,000 to four illegal immigrants he detained at gunpoint; The court says the immigrants were not armed and didn’t threaten him.”

And The Arizona Daily Star reports that “Assault ruling upheld against rancher; now must pay $87K.”

You can access Thursday’s non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Politics and the Court”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “When it comes to pushing the line between law and politics, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas each had a banner month in January.”

“Nominee to Supreme Court easily wins Senate panel’s OK”: Ken Kobayashi has this article today in The Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

The “Record on Appeal” blog covered yesterday’s confirmation hearing live, and you can access that coverage via this link.