Blog Round-Up

By Kevin Russell
on Jun 26, 2006 at 3:33 pm

Akin Gump’s Katie Spencer has this round-up of recent SCOTUS-related postings from around the web:

Here and here, Sentencing Law and Policy offers a few quick thoughts on the decisions handed down in Marsh and Recuenco.

Sentencing Law and Policy admires “sentencing guru” Rachel Barkow here and offers selections from her latest piece, “Originalists, Politics, and Criminal Law on the Rehnquist Court.”

Here, Sam Issacharoff describes the “Mom and Apple Pie high ground” taken in the debate surrounding renewal of the Voting Rights Act.

Election Law offers some initial thoughts on Randall v. Sorrell, noting that it is the first time that the two new Justices have heard a campaign finance decision.

Here, Orin Kerr posts that the Supreme Court’s “sharp internal divisions about capital punishment were on unusually open display” in today’s Kansas v. Marsh decision.

Orin Kerr has this post on Scalia’s “misuse” in Hudson v. Michigan of Samuel Walker’s book, Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in American Criminal Justice.

Here, PrawfsBlawg reports on Kelo and the executive power.

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that the Supreme Court will hear KSR v. Teleflex, addressing when an invention is “obvious” and thus, prohibited from patent protection.

Sam Bagenstos has this post on his blog about today’s decision in Arlington Central School District v. Murphy.

Dan Markel has this post on PrawfsBlog responding to Doug Berman’s recent article, “Tweaking Booker.”

Kent Scheidegger has this post on Crime & Consequences on today’s decision in Marsh.