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April 05, 2012 | | EXCLUSIVE The former Current TV host got so mad over a snafu that he shattered a glass mug. The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz on the intensifying legal war over Olbermann’s firing. LEGAL SPAT Attorney General Eric Holder unexpectedly complied with a random Republican judge’s demand for a memo explaining whether President Obama believes in the principle of judicial review, part of a political spat that exploded over the president’s warning to the Supreme Court not to overturn his health-care law. “The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute,” Holder said in his letter, delivered to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. Conservatives, including the Wall Street Journal editorial board, had picked up the charge that Obama was challenging the legitimacy of judicial review. EXPOSED You might need to think twice about what the guys at the Apple store told you about Macs being impenetrable. More than 600,000 Apple computers have installed malware known as the Flashback Trojan, a Russian antivirus company said Thursday. The trojan first appeared last September, presenting itself as an Adobe Flash update. It disables certain Mac security features, enabling criminal hackers to control the machine. Apple has released a security update to guard against the malware, but users who haven’t installed it remain exposed. HEARING The grand-jury investigation into child-sex-abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky hampered a pretrial hearing on Thursday morning, as many details of the probe are still being worked out and major decisions are “still in flux,” Judge John Cleland said in adjourning the hearing. Lawyers in attendance were reportedly arguing over whether items found by prosecutors in Sandusky’s home can be used as evidence in court. Sandusky’s defense attorney had also requested that the judge discount critical evidence culled by prosecutors, including interceptions of telephone conversations between Sandusky and alleged victims. TOP SECRET Rick Santorum met with conservative leaders on Thursday to ask them to pressure Newt Gingrich to drop out of the race, sources said. While it’s likely Mitt Romney will capture the GOP nomination, Santorum has lost several states by small margins—in amounts that are similar to the number of votes Gingrich has received. With Romney surging in Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania, Santorum is reportedly seeking to work out a deal with Gingrich before then. “The leaders told us they wanted to stop Romney, defeat Barack Obama, and unite conservatives behind Rick,” said one Santorum aide. | | 
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