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Thursday Media Summary

By Nancy Palencia

CITIZENS UNITED

NY Times: Justice Defends Ruling on Finance
Adam Liptak – 2/3/2010

Huffington Post: Understanding the Citizens United Ruling
Ira Glasser – 2/3/2010

Wall Street Journal/Capital Journal: The Bigger Meaning: High Court Lets Companies Lobby Employees, Suppliers
Peter A. Brown – 2/3/2010

Human Events: Conservative Spotlight: Citizens United
John Gizzi – 02/04/2010

Huffington Post: Corporate Speech Is Not “Free”
Adam Winkler – 2/4/2010

Center For American Progress: How to Address Corporate Political Spending
Alex DeMots – 2/3/2010

Firedoglake: Today's Judiciary Committee Hearing On Citizens United
Bill Egnor – 2/3/2010

The Hill: Court ruling maybe less consequential than it seems
Lanny Davis – 2/03/2010

OBAMA SOTU/SCOTUS

Salem Statesman Journal: Voters’ choices affect Supreme Court cases
Paul Diller – 2/3/2010

GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES/COURTS

Huffington Post: The Big Apple’s 9/11 Blues
Dan Collins – 2/3/2010

LA Times/AP: Swiss taking 2 Uighurs from Gitmo, could render moot Supreme Court case about release into US
Mark Sherman – 2/3/2010

The Atlantic” A Joke, Right? Congress Moves To End Startlingly Successful Federal Program
Andrew Cohen – 2/3/2010

NATIONAL SECURITY/COURTS

CBS News/AP: Holder Defends Handling of Abdulmutallab
2/3/2010

FindLaw: The Trial of Aafia Siddiqui
JOANNE MARINER – 2/3/2010

Jurist/Paper Chase: Federal appeals court rules ‘millennium bomber’ 22-year sentence too lenient
Jay Carmella – 2/3/2010

Georgetown Security Law Briefs: Event: Free speech, human rights, and counter-terrorism laws
2/3/2010

MERIT SELECTION

Albany Times Union: The perils of electing judges
ABBE R. GLUCK AND VICTOR A. KOVNER – 2/4/2010

Akron Beacon Journal: Price of justice
Editorial – 2/3/2010

McLeod Country Chronicle: Retention elections of judges may be on fall ballot this year
Rich Glennie – 2/3/2010

Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Panel established to pick new federal magistrate judge
2/3/2010

PROP 8 CHALLENGE

Washington Post/AP: Calif. marriage trial draws friends with briefs
2/3/2010

DON’T ASK DON’T TELL REPEAL

Legal History Blog: Is Wartime a time to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
Mary L. Dudziak – 2/2/2010

Jurist/Paper Chase: US defense secretary announces panel to prepare for repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Jay Carmella – 2/3/2010

FEDERAL HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION/COURTS

One News Now: Holder sued over ‘Hate Crimes Act’
Bill Bumpas – 2/3/2010

PATRIOT ACT REFORM

Truthout: Patriot Act – Eight Years Later
Williams Fisher – 2/3/2010

IMMIGRATION/COURTS

Jurist/Paper Chase: Federal appeals court upholds injunction against Oklahoma immigration law
Brian Jackson – 2/3/2010

CNN: Judge to decide whether Obama’s aunt can stay in U.S.
2/4/2010

MILITARY JUSTICE/CIVILIAN COURTS

Jurist/Paper Chase: House committee approves Supreme Court jurisdiction over court-martial appeals
David Manes – 2/3/2010

FEDERAL NOMINATIONS

Charleston Gazette/Sustained Outrage: Obama on judicial nominees: "Let's have a fight about real stuff"
Andrew Clevenger – 2/3/2010

San Francisco Chronicle: Edward Chen: Portrait of a patriot
Editorial – 2/4/2010

SHARON KELLER

Austin American Statesman/Focal Point: No answer to Judge Keller's findings this week
Chuck Lindell – 2/3/2010

CLEAR THE BENCH COLORADO

People’s Press Collective” Clear the Bench Colorado's Matt Arnold Testifies Against Unconstitutional Tax Increases (video)
T.L. James – 2/3/2010

STATE COURT TRANSPARENCY

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Panel deadlocks on limiting online access to court records
Patrick Marley – 2/3/2010

MO STATE OF THE JUDICIARY

St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Political Fix: Mo. Chief Justice: Jailing nonviolent offenders doesn't work
Juana Summers – 2/3/2010

MissouriNet: Chief Justice Price takes direct approach in State of Judiciary address
Brent Martin – 2/3/2010

Kansas City Star/Prime Buzz: Judge Price delivers State of the Judiciary address
2/3/2010

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).