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Blog Round-up – Wednesday, August 3rd

Legal Times has this article arguing that the nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court is the product of two decades of planning by legal conservatives.

On TPM Cafe, Jack Balkin declares that executive power is the hidden issue in the current fight over the Supreme Court.

ElectionLawBlog has this post about what a Justice Roberts might mean for the Supreme Court’s consideration of the constitutionality of a renewed section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should that issue reach the Supreme Court in the future.

The Atlantic Online has this article arguing that the Supreme Court’s greatest failing is not ideological bias—it’s the justices’ increasingly tenuous grasp of how the real world works.