The Supreme Court has ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts:

In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the constitutional rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval ( Read more... )

Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial birth abortion" (a term invented by wingnuts, it's a dilation and extraction, or IDX/D&X). No exception for the health of the woman.

Maybe you're thinking you're not that keen on abortions after the first trimester anyway, so it's not so bad. That's how they've snowed people. Read this woman's personal ( Read more... )

Sweltering out there? Yup. It's global warming.

...[S]ince 1880 the duration of heat waves in Western Europe has doubled and the number of unusually hot days in the region has nearly tripled ( Read more... )

Editor and Publisher is also reporting the story. It doesn't contain much we don't already know, other than an embedded AP reporter broke the story... and a couple other tidbits:

Iraqi police had been told about the killings three months ago. The U.S. contended the killings were by insurgents, until two or three soldiers spoke up.
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Via twistedchick: Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo War Crimes Trials:

The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions violate U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of war prisoners ( Read more... )

*points and laughs*
WASHINGTON - Evangelist Jerry Falwell lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal Monday of a case that sought to shut down a Web site with a similar name but opposite views on homosexuals ( Read more... )

Here we go everyone, clutch your uteruses (uterii?) because this is the beginning of the deluge. From WaPo:

The Supreme Court, stocked with two new conservative justices, agreed today to consider the constitutionality of the federal law banning "late-term" abortions ( Read more... )

It's official. Alito has been confirmed. CNN:
The Senate confirmed Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court on Tuesday by a vote of 58-42, a day after an attempt by some Democratic senators to block his nomination fizzled ( Read more... )

[List compiled by Georgia10 at Daily Kos]

Senators who have announced support for a filibuster:
1. Barbara Boxer (D- CA ( Read more... )