“Senate Republicans Block Vote on Obama-Appointed Judge”: This article will appear Friday in The New York Times.
Joan Biskupic of USA Today has a news update headlined “Senate rejects Obama judicial nominee.”
The Salt Lake Tribune has a news update headlined “Lee cites Alito criticism in voting against judicial nomination.”
Josh Richman of The Oakland Tribune has a news update headlined “GOP blocks UC Berkeley law professor’s vote to bench.”
The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Obama judicial nominee Liu fails to clear Senate.”
Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that “GOP filibuster blocks federal appeals court nominee Liu.”
Bloomberg News reports that “Senate Blocks Confirmation of Court Nominee Liu.”
Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Senate Democrats fail to block filibuster over judicial nominee.”
On this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment entitled “Controversial Obama Judicial Pick Falls To Filibuster.”
And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Extraordinary Hypocrisy: How Republican senators justified their decision to kill the nomination of Goodwin Liu.”
“Senate Votes Against Judicial Nominee Liu”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this news update.
James Oliphant of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Senate Republicans block appeals court nomination of Goodwin Liu.”
Politico.com reports that “Senate GOP filibusters Goodwin Liu.”
Alexander Bolton of The Hill has a blog post titled “Senate hands Obama his first defeat on a judicial nominee.”
And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” David Ingram has a post titled “Republicans Block Judicial Nomination of Goodwin Liu.”
“Losing counties in Ten Commandments cases face growing legal bills to ACLU”: Today’s edition of The Lexington Herald-Leader contains an article that begins, “The legal bill continues to mount for two south-central Kentucky counties from their lengthy, unsuccessful fight to post copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses.”
“Obama pick for bench blocked by GOP”: The Associated Press has this report.
Update: The U.S. Senate’s official roll call vote tally can be accessed here.
The U.S. Senate‘s cloture vote on the nomination of law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is now underway: You can view the vote live, online via C-SPAN2.
Update at 2:21 p.m.: It appears that at least 41 “no” votes have been cast against invoking cloture, which would mean that the attempt to invoke cloture has failed.
Update at 2:31 p.m.: The final vote on cloture was 52 votes for, 43 votes against, and one Senator voted “present.” Because the cloture motion did not receive at least 60 votes in favor, the motion did not succeed.
Scholarly articles of interest available online via SSRN: Law professor Neil S. Siegel has an article titled “Free Riding on Benevolence: Collective Action Federalism and the Individual Mandate” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
Law professor Marci A. Hamilton has an article titled “Employment Division v. Smith at the Supreme Court: The Justices, the Litigants, and the Doctrinal Discourse” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
And law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has an article titled “The D.C. Circuit After Boumediene” (via “Legal Theory Blog“).
“Widow of anthrax victim doubts FBI’s conclusion”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The widow of a Florida tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailings is casting fresh doubt on the FBI’s conclusion that a lone federal scientist staged the attacks, according to new documents filed in her lawsuit against the government.”
“Alaska Supreme Court Justice Morgan Christen Nominated to Ninth Circuit”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.
My earlier coverage of the nomination appears at this link.
“Oregon Supreme Court sends message to sheriffs: Medical marijuana cardholders can’t be denied concealed gun licenses solely because they use pot.” The Oregonian has this news update.
And The Associated Press reports that “Ore. court rules medical pot users can have guns.”
You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Oregon at this link.
“Goodwin Liu teeters toward a loss”: Politico.com has this report.
“FBI investigates Unabomber in ’82 Tylenol deaths”: The Associated Press has this report.
“Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings”: This article appears today in The New York Times.
“Justice in Dreamland”: Linda Greenhouse has this post at the “Opinionator” blog of The New York Times.
