Round-Up

New York Times op-ed contributor Jean Edward Smith suggests to embattled liberals that perhaps the solution to the Supreme Court’s new political agenda is to resort to political measures and stack the Court. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon offers her take on the Court’s state of affairs and what ought to be done to curb the Roberts Court’s conservative swing.

An op-ed appears in the LA Times today revisiting Ted Kennedy’s opinion piece in the Post last year in which he charged Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito with having deceived the Senate in their confirmation hearings. “So was he right all along?” Michael McGough ponders here.

A bill was reintroduced yesterday by California Representative Susan Davis that would “grant all service members access to the U.S. Supreme Court,” reports this article in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read a copy of the bill, Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007, here.

Balkinization agrees with points made in Doug Kendall’s and Jim Ryan’s New Republic essay, “How Liberals Can Take Back the Court,” and suggests that “if liberals think that the current generation of conservative judges have hijacked the Constitution…they should call for a return to first principles, to the best interpretation of the Constitution’s original meaning and underlying values.”

The Legal Times Blog had this post on Senator Arlen Specter’s statement that he wants to reexamine Chief Justice Roberts’ and Justice Alito’s confirmation testimony.