"In a rare publicly issued opinion," reports The New York Times, "the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said Tuesday that it would not release documents related to the National Security Agency's program of wiretapping without warrants." According to the report, "The American Civil Liberties Union had asked that secret court to release the opinions detailing two rulings it issued this year on the legality of the agency's eavesdropping program, which President Bush authorized after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

According to the Associated Press, "The Supreme Court on Monday said judges may impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine crimes, enhancing judicial discretion to reduce the disparity between sentences for crack and cocaine powder." The report states, "By a 7-2 vote, the court said that a 15-year sentence given to Derrick Kimbrough, a black veteran of the 1991 war with Iraq, was acceptable, even though federal sentencing guidelines called for Kimbrough to receive 19 to 22 years."

The Washington Post reports, "The Supreme Court yesterday extended its review of the federal courts' jurisdiction over those captured as terrorism suspects, agreeing to hear the cases of two U.S. citizens who are held in Iraq for crimes allegedly committed there." According to the report, "The two men -- one a Jordanian American suspected of conspiring with al-Qaeda and the other an Iraqi who became a U.S. citizen in 2000 and has been convicted in Iraq of kidnapping -- have asked federal courts in Washington to bar American military forces from turning them over to the Iraqis."