News Round-up and Follow-up
Feministing's Samhita points out how the dangers of spyware become more acute when linked to an abusive relationship.
Jeralyn at TalkLeft discusses Senator Obama's stance on crack-power cocaine sentencing ratios. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiori to hear a case on that issue. Go here for a guest-blogger analysis of the sentencing disparity by Nkechi Taifa; here for a brief overview of the case.
Scott Lemieux at Tapped explains that Congress can revisit past legislation to expand Title VII protections in the wake of the Supreme Court's Ledbetter decision.
Postscripts
Following up on our earlier post regarding changes to FISA and extra-judicial eavesdropping, georgia10 at DailyKos describes a White House press conference where the administration called for the removal of the 6-month sunset provision from the warrantless wiretapping law.
An earlier post discussed Attorney General Gonzales additional death penalty powers; the Washington Post reports "two senators have asked the Justice Department to delay new rules that would give Attorney General Alberto Gonzales authority to limit the time death row inmates spend on appeals before being executed."
The Chicago Tribune's James Oliphant discusses the drive to give terminally ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. We briefly discussed a decision that came out of the D.C. Circuit that held there was no constitutional right to those drugs, and a dissent that argued the contrary.