It was a late one for me last night, and this morning was spent partially in Probate Court, and I have to pick up my wife and some friends at the airport a bit later. So I may curtail blogging a bit early this afternoon. But we won’t miss much, I wager.
Here are some midday news/views treats served up southern style:
* In a 8-1 decision (Alito concurred in part and dissented in part), Supreme Court broadly extends Fourth Amendment protections to cell phones, meaning the authorities need a warrant to search them.
* Yet another federal judge overturns yet another state ban–this one in Indiana–on same-sex marriage.
* TNR’s Brian Beutler discusses Boehner’s pending lawsuit against Obama, which is intended to head off impeachment pressure but may just feed it.
* Jonathan Chait analyzes how HRC lost her “beer track” mojo.
* PBS serves up the first “GOP Establishment restores order” interpretation of madness in Mississippi.
And in non-political news:
* Character actor supreme Eli Wallach dies at 98.
As we break for lunch, here’s another song about Mississippi, from Bob Dylan, performed live in 2002.
