Luck Of The Draw: The take of former West Virginia prosecutor Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake on the selection of three judges from the Court of Appeals to rule on former White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby's request to delay his imprisonment:

Team Libby has filed its motion for appeal with the DC Circuit today. I just got a copy of the filing notice in my in-box, and it contains information regarding the assignment of the three-judge panel that we talked about earlier. Libby has drawn Judges Sentelle, Henderson and Tatel as his assigned three-judge panel....

Yes, this is the same Judge Tatel who wrote in his concurring opinion about “the plot against (covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband Joseph) Wilson” in those eight redacted pages that we waited so long to see.

And these are the same three judges who ordered that Matt Cooper (then of Time) and Judith Miller (then of the NYTimes) go to jail if they were unwilling to reveal information about the identities of the government officials who were trying to use them...

AP: Libby Draws Conservative Appellate Panel:

Of the three judges, two are former prosecutors.

Maybe this is Paris Hilton's place in history: She makes it harder to let Libby off.