“How a Judge’s Ruling on Torture Imperils a Guantánamo Prosecution Strategy; In dismissing a confession in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. has shaken a foundation of U.S. government cases at the post-9/11 court”: Carol Rosenberg will have this news analysis in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Two Justices Clash on Congress’s Power Over Supreme Court Ethics; For the second summer in a row, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan sketched out dueling conceptions of their institution’s place in the constitutional structure”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.