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Friday Media Summary

By Nancy Palencia

CITIZENS UNITED

NY Times: What Price Politics?
Editorial – 2/5/2010

NY Daily News: All corporate speech is created equal, and it should all be free
Joshua Greenman – 2/5/2010

AOL News: Debate: Election Laws Should Protect First Amendment
James Bopp Jr. – 2/5/2010

Huffington Post: Sherrod Brown: Citizens United Decision Will Make Congress Even More Timid
Sam Stein – 2/4/2010

Washington Post: Republicans losing their way on campaign finance reform
Warren Rudman – 2/5/2010

The Hill: Apocalypse imagined
Curt Levey – 02/04/2010

Citizens United: Why Citizens United Is a Fraud: A Guide for Non-Lawyers
Mark Green – 2/4/2010

Blog of Legal Times: Idea of Banning Books Hangs Over Campaign Finance Debate
David Ingram – 2/3/2010

GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES/COURTS

AOL News: Looking to History for a Solution to 9/11 Trial Controversy
Russell Berman – 2/5/2010

CNN: Why the 9/11 trial belongs in New York
Peter Bergen and Karen Greenberg – 2/4/2010

NATIONAL SECURITY/COURTS

CNN: Politics driving terror case complaints?
Matt Smith – 2/4/2010

Politico: John Boehner: President Obama has 'pre-9/11 mentality'
JAKE SHERMAN – 2/4/2010

BusinessWeek/Bloomberg: Underwear Bomber Got Worst Treatment Law Allows
Ann Woolner – 2/5/2010

The Hill: Restoring American values beyond Guantanamo
John Cloonan and James K. Robinson – 2/4/2010

BAGRAM DETAINEES/COURTS

Jurist/Paper Chase: Federal jury convicts Pakistani woman of attempted murder of US personnel
Matt Glenn – 2/4/2010

The International News: Outrage against Manhattan jury decision
Muhammad Anis – 2/5/2010

Al Jazeer English: Siddiqui’s ‘missing years’ (video)
2/5/2010

Truthout: Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions
Andy Worthington – 2/4/2010

MERIT SELECTION

Madison Capital Times: The danger of appointed judges
Editorial – 2/4/2010

West Virginia Record: Magistrate Judge merit selection panel named
Chris Dickerson – 2/4/2010

SOUTH CAROLINA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

Charleston Post & Courier: Several judges re-elected
2/4/2010

IMMIGRATION/COURTS

LA Times/AP: Arizona judge mulls sanctions against Maricopa County
Sheriff’s Office for destroying records
JACQUES BILLEAUD – 2/4/2010

MSNBC/AP: No asylum ruling for Obama's aunt
2/4/2010

USA Today/The Oval: Obama not involved in deportation hearing of aunt
David Jackson – 2/4/2010

FEDERAL NOMINATIONS

San Francisco Chronicle: Senate panel backs Obama’s judge nominee
Bob Egelko – 2/5/2010

San Francisco Chronicle: On to the full Senate
Editorial – 2/5/2010

Chicago Tribune/AP: Obama nominates Oakland judge to Detroit US court
2/4/2010

State Bar of Wisconsin: Senate Judiciary Committee recommends Louis Butler as Western District judge
Adam Korbitz – 2/4/2010

POLITICAL CORRUPTION/COURTS

Chiacgo Tribune: Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s indictment revised
Jeff Coen – 2/4/2010

MARRIAGE EQUALITY/COURTS

Pride Source: Speak Out: Judges matter!
Eric Rader – 2/4/2010

SCOTUS VACANCIES

ABC News: White House Prepares for Possibility of 2 Supreme Court Vacancies
ARIANE de VOGUE – 2/4/2010

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).