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Social Security disability claims are taking up to three years to resolve, with 2/3s of those initially rejected ultimately winning their cases, the New York Times reported.

The Department of Justice and the CIA have opened a joint investigation into the destruction of videotaped interrogations, examining who ordered the tapes destroyed and whether the CIA was seeking to hide evidence of coercion, according to a New York Times story. The interrogations may have occurred before the DOJ issued a formal legal opinion on interrogation techniques.

The president can violate his own executive orders and the DOJ must obey the President's legal decisions, according to Wired's coverage of a speech by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

Where are they now?  The L.A. Times examines what happened to the U.S. Attorneys fired by the White House last year.

"There's no royal road to [a] Supreme Court" clerkship, according to a speech by Jeannie Suk, reported in The Record.

The policy on Senate "holds": a CRS report.

Four members of Congress were briefed on waterboarding in 2002, according to a Hill news account.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would televise Supreme Court proceedings, according to a Roll Call report.