Round-Up

At Balkinization, Charlie Savage comments on the Bush administration’s “strategy of picking presidential lawyers” to fill Court vacancies.

Reports are circulating that an interview with Justice Clarence Thomas will be featured on 60 Minutes on September 30th. The interview is reportedly in connection to the Justice’s new memoir, to be published October 1st. Read Tony Mauro’s post on it at the Blog of the Legal Times, here.

Marcia Coyle reports in The National Law Journal that Exxon Mobil Corp has recently filed a cert petition in the Supreme Court, pertaining to the “complex legal fallout” from the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the Alaskan coast. Read that article here, and then this blog post by Michael Krauss at PointofLaw.com on The National Law Journal article and the case.

Rick Hasen at Election Law has this post on a case pertaining to the “constitutionality of the renewed section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” and he provides several links to other articles on the case.