Newt Gingrich, fresh from his unsuccessful race for president, will address the state GOP convention in Columbus next month . . .
Arizona’s controversial immigration law, which was a model for a similar law passed in Georgia this year, will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court, as long expected, will hear and decide constitutional challenges to the federal healthcare act . . .
Georgia and 25 other states ask the Supreme Court to go ahead and rule on the constitutionality of the federal healthcare reform act . . .
U.S. Supreme Court lets stand a California law that allows undocumented immigrants who attend a public college to pay the lower, in-state tuition rates . . .
Mayor Kasim Reed says Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to settle the case of a 92-year-old woman shot and killed by narcotics officers during a botched drug raid; the U.S. Supreme Court says Orly Taitz will have to pay that $20,000 fine in Columbus federal court . . .
Great catch by Eric Kleefeld of Talking Points Memo, who dug up the Senate confirmation vote on Sonia Sotomayor when the Supreme Court nominee was confirmed in 1998 for the U.S. Court of Appeals.
