As some pw regulars already know, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, granted a 48-hour stay in the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker, after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos. The story was broken by the L.A. Times, but Patterico has spoken to the tipster Cyrus Sanai, who e-mailed Patterico images that he says he downloaded

The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel reports: Imprisoned Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko has accused federal prosecutors of improperly pressuring him to implicate Barack Obama in a corruption case. In a letter to the U.S. District judge who presided over his trial, Rezko, who was convicted this month of 16 corruption-related counts including fraud and money laundering, called prosecutors “overzealous.” And he singled out what he said were their efforts to

Adds curvature, dimensionality to photo of woman who writes about sex. (h/t Reynolds)

Like most with an interest in the issue, I am just beginning to skim the Supreme Court’s opinions on the habeas corpus rights of unlawful combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay (the case getting the buzz) and US citizens detained in Iraq (which is not getting much buzz at all). Michelle Malkin has already provided a good round up of early reactions, but folks including Ed Morrissey may be overstating things by suggesting that the

What’d I miss?

I tend not to read the Washington Post’s Michael Gerson, let alone columns titled, “The McCain Miracle,” so I almost missed this: The style and approach of general election campaigns are often conditioned by the method of victory in the primaries. The Obama team ends the season like a battle-worn Army division — organized, relentless and skilled at fundraising, registering voters and getting them to the polls. Members of the

When the new WSJ/NBC poll, along with the Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls, all show Barack Obama with a 5%-6% lead over John McCain, it is obvious where the race stood after Hillary Clinton suspended her primary campaign.  Yet the coverage of the WSJ and NBC offer differing pictures of the same poll. NBC reported: Obama leads McCain among registered voters, 47 to 41 percent, which is outside the poll’s margin of error.