"A former top lawyer for the Bush administration on Tuesday said that parts of President Bush's controversial eavesdropping program were illegal," reports the Associated Press. According to the report, Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "There were certain aspects of the Terrorist Surveillance Program 'that I could not find the legal support for.'"

The New York Times reports, "Among the hundreds of appeals the Supreme Court turned down on Monday, in a list that printed out at 83 pages, were two cases on the relationship between church and state that might have brought even more visibility to the term." According to the report, "One was a case from New York on whether church-affiliated employers who object to birth control on religious grounds must nonetheless provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of their medical insurance coverage, as required by laws in New York and some two dozen other states. The other case challenged the refusal of a public library in California to make a community meeting room available for worship services."

According to a report by the Associated Press a federal judge ruled Monday that presidents don't have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they've left office. "In a narrowly crafted ruling," the report explains, "U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush's 2001 executive order, which allowed former presidents and vice presidents to review executive records before they are released under the Freedom of Information Act."