Round-Up

In today’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has this column discussing the direction of the Roberts Court, the “see-saw argument schedule,” and Justice Ginsburg’s lost shoe. At Legalities, Jan Crawford Greenburg updated this post in response to Greenhouse’s column.

Here, Aaron Streett of Baker Botts LLP reports on Monday’s opinions in his latest “Supreme Court Today” update.

At Balkinization, Jack Balkin has this post on a paper he co-authored with Sanford Levinson, which discusses the relevance of the Dred Scott case to contemporary constitutional debates. Balkin also has this post discussing uses of the term “ideological drift” in the context of the High Court.

In this post at Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman draws parallels between Lewis Libby and Victor Rita, whose sentencing case was argued before the Supreme Court last month.

At Law.com, Isidore Silver has this essay for the National Law Journal, which discusses the impact of two recent Supreme Court opinions in Hudson v. Michigan and Garcetti v. Ceballos.