Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal (10 links)
SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for more than three years as an "enemy combatant." Only three Justices voted to hear the case, according to the order.]]>

2005 Koufax Awards --The Winners (7 links)
Wampum
I apologize for the delay in posting the winners. We had a big turn out both in comments and in emails and a number of the categories had excruciatingly close races (one category had an exact tie, more on that below). The voting was roughly evenly split between comments and email.
The closeness of the vote, combined with the fact that a lot of folks voted more than once (inadvertently, as a result of the slowness of our system recording the comments, or for other, less noble, reasons) meant that we had to scrutinize a lot of the votes to make sure they were legitimate. Our software