Blog Round-up – Monday, October 31st.

Blog Coverage of the Alito Nomination:

ACSblog has this post on his life as a litigator.
Think Progress offers this perspective with Alito’s views on women’s right, civil rights and other issues.
Election Law Blog has this post on why Judge Alito will not be confirmed.
The Patry Copyright Blog has this post on Alito and copyright law.
Tax Prof Blog rounds-up the press coverage of the nomination.
Law Dork comments on the fact that Bush emphasized Judge Alito’s credentials in his speech this morning.
Here is Underneath Their Robes’ take on the nomination.
Confirm Them, a collaborative weblog organized by RedState.org, has this post on Alito and Casey.
PrawfsBlawg has this post on how the Alito nomination will galvanize and unite both the Republican and Democratic parties, just not in the spirit of bi-partisanship.
Also on PrawfsBlawg Matt Bodie has this post on how even with Judge Alito’s nomination the Miers debacle actually helps Democrats.
Here Michelle Malkin rounds-up the news and blog coverage of the nomination.
On Concurring Opinions, Dave Hoffman asks, whether or not Alito is the business friendly nominee.
The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on Alito and Planned Parenthood v. Farmer. In the opinion he concurred in a judgment striking down New Jersey’s partial birth abortion statute.
Sentencing Law & Policy has this post asking whether Alito will continue with the Constitutional Project’s Sentencing Initiative.
Ann Althouse has this post on Alito and the Family Medical Leave Act.

UPDATE: The First Amendment Center has posted this analysis of Judge Alito’s First Amendment jurisprudence.

In related news:

Roll Call has this article on the fact that the timeline for Alito’s confirmation process is uncertain.
Balkinization has this post on Griswold, Roe and superprecedents.
UPDATE: On Concurring Opinions Daniel Solove responds to Balkin’s piece on superprecedents.
Sentencing Law & Policy has this post on the court’s orders from today.

Here is the Alliance for Justice’s statement on the nomination.
Here is Planned Parenthood’s statement on the nomination.
Here is Justice at Stake’s statement on the nomination.

Finally, here is Wikipedia’s bio of Judge Alito. It includes an extensive case history.