Via How Appealing, who got it from Law.Com reporter Tony Mauro, we learn there's a new blog by the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. It's called Behind the Homefront, and is "a daily chronicle of news in homeland security and military operations affecting newsgathering, access to information and the public's right to know."

THE STAGE HAS BEEN SET FOR SUPREME COURT ACTION on the question of whether the public has a right of access to the terrorism-related immigration proceedings, most of which, of course, are long over. On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit rejected a government request for rehearing by the entire court, letting stand a decision holding that automatic closure of all post-September 11th immigration proceedings was unconstitutional. The Third Circuit last month decided not to rehear a case that reached the opposite conclusion, that the First Amendment does not guarantee a presumptive right of access. The split in the circuits can only be resolved by Supreme Court review. News coverage: Detroit Free Press; News Media Update (3rd Cir.); News Media Update (6rd Cir.)