Blog Round-up – Monday, August 8th
on Aug 8, 2005 at 8:07 pm
Speaking at the American Bar Association’s annual Thurgood Marshall Award Dinner on Saturday night, Justice Stevens issued a stinging criticism of America’s use of the death penalty. ACSBlog reports on the speech here. Sentencing Law & Policy has this commentary on the remarks.
Sentencing Law & Policy also has this post about this morning’s Washington Post editorial criticizing the June speech given by Attorney General Gonzales in which he advocated a legislative response to Booker in the form of “the construction of a minimum guideline system.”
Todd Zywicki has this post on the Federalist Society’s report from the ABA Convention and the “conservative majority” on the current Supreme Court.
Oyez has posted these recordings of Judge Roberts’ oral arguments.
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Majority Rule or Minority Will : Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court by Harold J. Spaeth & Jeffrey A. Segal and Stare Indecisis : The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992 by Saul Brenner & Harold J. Spaeth.
