The allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn keep coming, here's the latest from France.

Bunny Mellon's lawyer, Alexander Forger, will testify this afternoon in the John Edwards trial.

The ACLU files suit over 9/11 defendants' arraignments set for tomorrow. The Government plans to censor any statements regarding torture while in U.S. custody.

What's on your mind today? Here's an open thread to discuss it, all topics welcome.

President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.

Newt Gingrich is finally giving up his bid to become President.

For those following the Roger Clemons retrial, Andy Pettitte testified today.

New Zealand has a big campaign contribution mess developing, and it involves donations from Kim DotCom.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Today, ManU v. Man City for control of the Premier League race. It's at 3 EST on ESPN. Sadly, I won't get to watch it live. If you want to give soccer a try, this is not a bad one to start with. It should be bedlam.

Open Thread.

Amazing Race is in India tonight. I haven't watched this season before tonight. I'm glad to see that Brendon and Rachel from Big Brother are still competing. One of competing pairs are Border Patrol Agents. I hope they go home before Brendon and Rachel. Has anyone been watching?

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

I'm still participating at a Yale Law School conference on Constitutional Interpretation on Jack Balkin's book "Living Originalism. I wrote about it last week. Some previous posts on the subject: Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism and a Living Constitution and Dred Scott, Originalism and a Living Constitution..

You can watch a live stream of the conference. It should be fascinating.

I'll be part of the panel asking the author questions. Our segment begins at 1 pm:

I know a lot of people want to continue dissecting the facts (as opposed to law) in the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. I cleaned several comments from an earlier thread about today's hearing, after asking commenters to copy and save them for an open thread, or a new thread about the evidence in the case. My post today was about the court hearing.

If anyone wants to continue the discussion of Zimmerman, on any facet of the case, you can do so here.

Comments on other topics are also welcome.

I haven't even gotten around to opening my email yet today. I'm also trying to watch American Idol. Katy Perry was just on singing her catchy "Part of Me" song and now I can't get it out of my head.

George Zimmerman's lawyer today said the now-defunct website Zimmerman set up raised $200.000. He said he'll inform the court. Here's the video of O'Mara's comments to Anderson Cooper Our Zimmerman threads are full, so you can comment on that case, and any other topics, here.

I'm going to a conference on Constitutional law the next two days. I'll probably write about it over the next few days.

Open Thread.

Down goes Altmire! Maybe andgarden and I will be the only TLers who care.

Also, too, Chelsea shocked Barca yesterday in the Champions League. Madrid must beat Bayern today to redeem the reputation of La Liga (not really). Go Los Merengues!

Down goes Madrid on PKs.

Go Chelsea!!

Open Thread.

I'm speculating J will write some stuff today. No sourcing,

Update (TL):: Just shows how important it is to source speculations. I'm busy at work, nothing from me for a while.

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My Sunday daily kos article, Prof. Jack Balkin on 'Living Originalism' and the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, covers ground regular readers will be familiar with. See Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism and a Living Constitution and Dred Scott,Originalism and a Living Constitution.

Open Thread.

There must be readers with something besides the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case to talk about. If so, here's a place.

If you want to continue the Zimmerman discussion, you can do that here too. It's an open thread, all topics welcome

I'm going to watch Key Largo on PBS, and check for new developments in the John Edwards and Kim DotCom/ MegaUpload cases.