Blog Round-Up – Friday, October 28th

On Miers:

On ThinkProgress John Podesta has this post on whether or not the “right” holds female Supreme Court nominees to a different standard than male nominees.

PrawfsBlawg has this post by Matt Bodie on “Miers Myths,” debunking some of the reasons leading to her withdrawal.
UPDATE: Fellow PrawfsBlawger Dan Markel reponds here.

Volokh Conspiracy Blogger Todd Zywicki’s pick for Miers replacement is Edith Jones.

Here is Sentencing Law & Policy Blogger Doug Berman’s take on the SCOTUS name game.

ACSBlog has posted bios of potential Court nominees.

Underneath Their Robes also has an extensive post-mortem of the Miers nomination.

UPDATE: UTR also has this post on speculation about who the SCOTUS nominee might be.

In other news:

The National Law Journal has this article on post-Crawford excited utterance cases. Two petitions for certiorari (Davis v. Washington, No. 05-5224, and Hammon v. Indiana, No. 05-5705) that raise confrontation clause issues — in the context of excited utterance exceptions to hearsay rules — are pending before the court. Both are listed for action by the court at its Oct. 28 conference.

Justice Scalia reviewed Law’s Quandary by Steven D. Smith in First Things, the Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life.

The George Washington Law Review will be hosting a symposium on the Rehnquist Court this weekend. Details here.

Legal Theory Blog has posted details for an upcoming syposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, hosted by the Law Review on “The Chief Justice & the Institutional Judiciary.”