Thursday News Roundup

Time, Inc., the parent company of Time Magazine, has decided to hand over documents revealing the source who contacted Time reported Matthew Cooper about the Valerie Plame affair. Cooper, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, had been facing jail time for refusing to cooperate with the special prosecutor.
The United States Department of Agriculture announced that the cow which tested positive for Mad Cow disease last week had spent its entire life in Texas, making it the first purely domestic case on record.
The California Supreme Court yesterday let stand a new law granting registered domestic partners many of the same rights and protections available to married couples. The law puts California behind only Massachusetts, Vemont and Connecticut in granting civil rights to same sex couples.
Dana Milbank notes that the only vacancy this week has been in Supreme Court news.
NYU Law Professor Noah Feldman offers what is being billed as a "provocative proposal for redrawing the line between church and state" in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, available online now.
Elizabeth Holtzman's article in The Nation, "Torture and Accountability," makes a case for the war crimes prosecution of higher-ups.
Rhode ISland governor Donald Carcieri (R) has vetoed a medical marijuana bill passed by the state legislature earlier this week. Carcieri, in a statement, claimed the bill would "make the drug more available to children."