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Tuesday Media Summary

By Nancy Palencia

NATIONAL SECURITY/COURTS

Wall Street Journal: Key Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released
(subscription required)
Jess Bravin – 3/22/2010

Jurist/Paper Chase: Supreme Court declines to rule on Guantanamo detainee transfer process
Jaclyn Belczyk – 3/22/2010

BusinessWeek/Bloomberg: Guantanamo Inmates Lose U.S. High Court Bid for Transfer Notice
Greg Stohr – 3/22/2010

Washington Post: Graham proposes framework for handling terrorism
suspects
Anne E. Kornblut – 3/23/2010

Huffington Post: March Madness Strikes the Terror Debates
Daphne Eviatar – 3/22/2010

DETAINEE LAWYERS

Blog Of Legal Times: Ginsburg, GE Counsel Speak Up For Justice Department Lawyers
Jefff Jeffrey – 3/22/2010

CITIZENS UNITED/CAMPAIGN FINANCE

Texas Tribune: The first corporate ad
Ross Ramsey – 3/22/2010

Christian Science Monitor: Should campaign contributions be anonymous?
Donald Marron – 3/22/2010

Huffington Post: Colorado Campaign Finance Law Unconstitutional: Supreme Court
3/22/2010

WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT/GABLEMAN CAMPAIGN ETHICS

Milawukee Journal Sentinel: Gableman wants Crooks off of ethics case
Patrick Marley – 3/22/2010

HEALTHCARE REFORM/COURTS

Wall Street Journal: Health-Overhaul Foes Ready Court Challenges (subscription required)
Jess Bravin – 3/23/2010

Jurist/Paper Chase: State attorneys general to challenge health care reform legislation
Steve Dotterer – 3/22/2010

Washington Post: Cuccinelli to file suit ‘as soon as the ink is dry’ on health-care signature
Rosalind Helderman – 3/21/2010

FOX News/On The Record: Legal Challenges Await Health Care Bill
Greta Van Susteren – 3/23/2010

Vanity Fair: Could Health-Care Reform Make Its Way to the Supreme Court?
Andrew Cohen – 3/22/2010

Media Matters Of America: Right-wing media demonstrate “judicial activism” by urging landmark healthcare bill be overturned by courts
3/22/2010

Washington Post: Outlook: Is health-care reform unconstitutional?
Randy Barnett – 3/22/2010

FEDERAL NOMINATIONS

Washington Post: Law professor Goodwin Liu may be test case for Obama judicial picks
Robert Barnes – 3/22/2010

TownHall.com: Obama Amps Up Liberal Court Nominee
Jillian Bandes – 3/23/2010

National Review Online/Bench Memos: Goodwin Liu's Ambition Exceeds Even His Inexperience
Ed Whelan – 3/22/2010

Wisconsin Law Journal: Q&A with Judge William M. Conley
Jane Pribley – 3/22/2010

Media Matters For America: Napolitano won’t let facts get in the way of his Matheson smear
3/23/2010

Wall Street Journal/ Law Blog: If Stevens Steps Down, Obama Likely to Move Quickly
Ashby Jones – 3/22/2010

MERIT SELECTION

Legal Intelligencer: Use Merit Selection to Pick Pa. Appellate Court Judges
Lynn Marks & Shira Goodman – 3/22/2010

PROP 8 CHALLENGE

San Francisco Chronicle/AP: Campaign memos must go to gay marriage ban backers
3/22/2010

San Jose Mercury News: Judge orders advocacy groups to turn over campaign material in Prop. 8 trial
Howard Mintz – 3/22/2010

NY Times: Trial in Same-Sex Marriage Case Is Challenged
Adam Liptak – 3/23/2010

NPR/Talk Of The Nation: Olson An Unlikely Challenger Of Prop 8 (w/audio)
3/22/2010

ILLINOIS JUDICIAL REFORM

Peoria Journal Star: Madigan wants to toughen Illinois judiciary rules
Brian Feldt – 3/22/2010

IMMIGRATION REFORM

LA Times: America’s fickle welcome mat
Jeffrey Kaye – 3/23/2010

LA Times/AP: Supreme Court to review immigration law that favors children of US mothers, over US fathers
MARK SHERMAN – 3/22/2010

New America Media: Immigration Reform: Calling all Battle Stations
Frontera Nortesur – 3/22/2010

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS/COURTS

Jurist/Paper Chase: Supreme Court declines to rule on abortion clinic layered protest zones
Hillary Stemple – 3/22/2010

EX-FELONS/VOTING RIGHTS

Wall Street Journal/Law Blog: Should Felons Lose the Right to Vote?
Ashby Jones – 3/22/2010

FEDERAL JUDGES

Wall Street Journal/Law Blog: Focus on Federal Judge (and Stern Taskmaster) William Pauley
Nathan Koppel – 3/23/2010

JUDGES/INTERNET RESEARCH

Reuters: A judge may google to confirm intuition-US court
Jonathan Stempel – 3/22/2010

THREATS AGAINST JUDGES

KTIV/AP: Man sentenced for threatening Neb. federal judge
3/22/2010

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).