• White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik—An in-depth report by John Solomon and Peter Baker in the Washington Post that looks at the troubled history of the former nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security and “raises questions about the decisions made by the president, the Republican front-runner to replace him [Rudy Giuliani] and the embattled attorney general” during that time.

• Still Guilty After All These Years—A thought-provoking op-ed piece by author Scott Turow in the New York Times that examines how “the growing capacity of today’s forensics to reach farther and farther into the past seems likely to undermine the law’s time-ingrained notions, embodied in statutes of limitations, about how long people should be liable to criminal prosecution.”

• Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school—A somewhat troubling report by Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe that details how graduates of Regent University School of Law, such as Monica Goodling, have been handed influential positions in the Bush Justice Department more for their conservative politics than for their experience and ability.

• ‘Our Homes Are Going into the Sea’—Writing for Inter Press Service (here via OneWorld.net), Haider Rizvi interviews “an Inuit leader who has been fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Canadian Arctic region for many years” and who talks about how global warming is already causing considerable harm to the Inuits’ environment and way of life.