Round-Up

Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan contend that Justice Thomas’ opinions in three major cases last term — Morse v. Frederick, Parents Involved v. Seattle Schools and FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life — illustrate that the Justice is radical but not that he is a “model originalist,” as many have professed him to be.

An editorial in The Wall Street Journal argues that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, passed on Tuesday by the House, is a “dangerous ‘reform'” that “would lead to the discovery by trial lawyers of all manner of ancient slights, many of which, compounded over decades, would add up to tidy sums for the plaintiffs and their lawyers.”

The Washington Post’s election blog offers this post on the “Roberts Scare” and its effect on the campaign trail.