Blog Round-up – Friday, August 12th
on Aug 12, 2005 at 9:43 am
Balkinization has this post up titled, “Dred Scott and Kelo.” Professor Balkin argues that the closest analogy to the substantive due process argument in Dred Scott v. Sandford isn’t Roe v. Wade — its the dissenters’ position in Kelo v New London.
Underneath Their Robes has this update on law clerk hiring. Justice Ginsburg has now hired all her clerks for October Term 2006.
Tony Mauro asks, “Will Roberts Jump into the Supreme Court cert pool?”
Political Scientist Daniel R. Pinello has done this analysis of the language that the Justices use when describing certain classes of litigants. Specifically Pinello finds it troubling when Justices use the term “homosexual” instead of “gay and lesbian.”
An article in Texas Lawyer contends that, at least in Texas, United States v. Booker has not changed the sentences that judges are giving out. Sentencing Law & Policy comments on the article here.
