Blog Round-Up – Thursday, August 18th

The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on using Chief Justice Rehnquist’s periodic absences from the bench this year as an opportunity to test the influence of the Chief Justice by comparing results in cases over which Rehnquist presided versus those over which Stevens presided as acting Chief to see whether there is any systematic differences in the outcomes depending on the presiding Chief.

Here is Underneath Their Robes on Justice Breyer’s 67th birthday which was earlier this week.

ElectionLawBlog has this entry on the cert petition in the Florida felony voting rights case, which was profiled by SCOTUSBlog earlier this week.