Blog Round-up – Thursday, October 13th

On the Miers Nomination:

Concurring Opinions has this post asking,”Is The Nation really willing to endorse originalism in order to score a few points against corporations and Harriet Miers?” The post is in response to this article by Morton Mintz titled, “Ten Questions for Harriet Miers.”

TaxProf Blog asks, “Is Miers a Tax Textualist?”

Professor Bainbridge is running a poll to gauge the status of the Miers nomination. Professor Bainbridge also live blogged a conference call with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and bloggers regarding the Harriet Miers nomination.

Think Progress has this post titled, “The Right, Religion and The Supreme Court: What a Difference a Month Makes.” The post remarks on a USA Today article which posits that since the White House hasn’t been able to convince its allies to support its Supreme Court nominee, it has had “to add a dimension to its portrait of Miers,” namely, her religion.

On Recent SCOTUS Cases:

Criminal Appeal has this post on the Supreme Court’s per curiam reversal of Sixth Circuit in a federal habeas case, Dye v. Hofbauer. Sentencing Law & Policy also has this post on the case.

PropertyProf Blog has this post on Justice O’Connor, Midkiff and Kelo. The authors of the post used conference notes, and other research from the files of past Supreme Court Justices, on the Court’s major takings cases to draw their conclusions.

ACSBlog has this post on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear three cases that attempt to limit the federal government’s power to protect hundreds of millions of acres of wetlands under the 1972 Clean Water Act.

Balkinization guest blogger David Luban has this post on what’s at stake in Hamdan.

Finally, the University of Chicago Faculty Blog has this post titled, “The Myth that Justices Change on the Bench.”