I'll be offline for the next several hours so here's an open thread for you.

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I have a very busy 3 days ahead. So I won't be around much during the day. But the victorious legal warrior J walks again amongst us mere mortals so I am sure she, with TChris and Ethan, will have plenty of interesting things to say.

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Your turn.

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I imagine I have missed at least 5 important stories over the past few days. Fill me in if you please.

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I'm on assignment. Actually, I'm having a lot of fun trying to create a new kind of hearing notebook for a suppression hearing this week.

There are so many cases on traffic stops that end with purported consents to search and the seizure of vast quantities of drugs, that it's hard to keep them all straight. Printing them out and sticking them in a file is not going to help me find the one I need as I'm arguing. [More...]

I've been buried with work today and simply have not had a second for any blogging.

I do want to mention that I just got in the mail a copy of Eric Boehlert's new book, "bloggers on the bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" (Free Press, a Simon and Schuster imprint.) The book will be available for purchase on Amazon. Eric is not only a terrific reporter, but a good friend of TalkLeft. I'll provide a review of the book as soon as I have a chance to read it.

Speaking for me only

Bulls-Celtics Game 6 tonight at 7. Must see TV.

One other thing, Matt Yglesias calls Cass Sunstein a "progressive lawyer," proving yet again, that when it comes to the law, Yglesias is utterly clueless.

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My assignment file is full, both in terms of my professional work and my blogging avocation.

I am currently working on the following topics bloggingwise - completing my series of posts on the torture issue, spurred by my public and private exchanges with Stuart Taylor, Jr. In addition, informed in a tangential way by the newly nascent secessionist movement, I am preparing a post (now weeks overdue) on the preemption doctrine. I hope to complete all of these posts by next Wednesday.

I'll also borrow an Ezra Klein device of asking if there are any other subjects you think I should cover (remember I don't do criminal law, that is J and TChris' bailiwick, other than torture and civil liberties issues.).

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BTD is traveling this afternoon. Here's an open thread for you, all topics welcome.

Update: In the news: Via Sentencing Law and Policy, a Utah woman was sent to jail for 30 days for contempt for texting in court.

Must see TV tonight at 7 -- Game 5 of the Bulls-Celtics series.

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It's DWTS and "24" tonight for me. What are you watching? And if you're not watching anything, what else are you doing, reading of interest or thinking about?

Update: More injuries on DWTS. Melissa isn't there due to complications from rib injuries and Gilles has an injured collarbone requiring cortisone shots.

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