Habitual Sex Offender to stand trial for the murder of North Dakota college student. The federal trial of the man accused of the November 2003 kidnap and murder of 22-year-old Dru Sjodin will begin Thursday, according to an Associated Press story

California prisons have become a political issue in race for Governor. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle breaks down the positions taken by Govenror Schwarzenegger and challenger Phil Angelidies.

The Kennedy Center? Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post examines the current Supreme Court's center of gravity here. She laments, "a court with Kennedy at the center is not a securely centrist court."