“How to end the judicial nomination blockade in Congress”: The Grand Rapids Press contains this editorial today.

“Few are charged over threats against US officials”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court watchers: Roberts, Alito no sure bets against health-care mandate.” Robert Barnes will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

“Declassified Ike papers show range of concerns”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Newly released documents show President Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed great faith in the capabilities of Earl Warren to serve as U.S. Supreme Court justice.”

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Ginsburg chills healthcare speedup hopes.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“No Argument: Thomas Keeps 5-Year Silence.” Adam Liptak has this front page article today in The New York Times.

Last year, Justice William W. Bedsworth of California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal had a related essay entitled “Carpentry Without Tools.”

“Sometimes, Justice Can Play Politics”: In today’s edition of The New York Times, law professor Noah Feldman has an op-ed that begins, “What is it about those robes? They are only flimsy bits of wools, enlivened in a few cases by some very European lace at the collar. Yet the moment our Supreme Court justices put them on, a segment of the concerned public imagines that they have become priests consecrated to the sacred order of the Constitution.”