Torture Hypocrisy:  The current effort to convert the Bush Administration's war on terror into the Clintonian approach to foreign-born terrorists as a criminal justice problem has encouraged some to call for prosecution of those who authorized the harsh interrogation of a few key terrorist leaders shortly after 9/11.  In this piece in today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer discusses the naivete of the President's assertion that the information about the structure of the Islamic terrorist network and plans for future attacks could have been gotten without resorting to waterboarding.  He also finds it "utterly contemptible" that some Congressional leaders who  acquiesced to waterboarding in 2002 "rise now 'on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009' ... to excoriate those who kept us safe these harrowing eight years."  This opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal also questions the wisdom and accuracy of the President's recent statements on what constitutes torture.

Jacking Jerry's Wheels:  California's self described "top cop", Attorney General Jerry Brown, lost his wheels to thieves last week.  The theft occurred on April 24th, while the hybrid taxpayers lease for Brown was parked in front of his home in Oakland, the city he cleaned up as Mayor.  The San Francisco Chronicle story by Henry K. Lee reports that Brown, who is seeking a second stint as California's Governor, was at the State Democrat Party convention in Sacramento when his wheels were stolen.

Filling Souter's Seat:  The big legal story for the next several months will be about who the president nominates to replace Justice Souter.  Marc Ambinder has this piece in the Atlantic discussing who's in the running. Among the other 2,000 or so stories on this are a couple of other decent takes, including this one by LA Times writer David G. Savage, this one by Warren Richey at The Christian Science Monitor, and this one by Ashby Jones at WSJ Law Blog.