From this morning's Earlybird:

• President Obama "will nominate a replacement to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens no later than May 26," The Hill reports.

• "Obama has begun interviewing potential Supreme Court nominees and" today "will urge top senators to confirm his choice in a timely fashion, a senior administration official said," the Wall Street Journal (subscription) reports.

• "In a major First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a federal law that made it a crime to create or sell dogfight videos and other depictions of animal cruelty," the New York Times reports.