Blog Round-up – Wednesday, October 5th

Here is Law Dork on the Dallas City Council race candidate questionnaire on which Harriet Miers responded yes to a question that asked if she “believe[d] that gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as non-gay men and women.” Later on the questionnaire she responded, “No” when asked if she, “as an individual citizen, support[ed] repeal of Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code which criminalizes the private sexual behavior of consenting adult lesbians and gay men.”

Think Progress has created this “tribute” to the Miers nomination.

The Volokh Conspiracy reflects on the fact that the media and congressional reaction to the nomination of John Roberts and Harriet Miers are following one of a handful of set scripts that have been around for a few decades.

George Will asks, “Can This Nomination Be Justified?”

Today the Court is hearing oral arguments in the Oregon assisted suicide case. In August, the Legal Affairs Debate Club asked, “Is Assisted Suicide Legal?” Debating the issue were Jonathan Adler associate professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University and Wesley J. Smith, an attorney and the author of Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.

The University of Chicago Faculty Blog has this post, by Cass Sunstein, on evaluating Supreme Court nominees.