Blog Round-up – Monday, November 7th

In nomination news:

Sentencing Law & Policy has this detailed post with yet more information about Alito and criminal law.
Think Progress has this post titled, “What the New York Times Won’t Tell You About Alito’s ‘Apolitical’ Supporter.”
On FindLaw Mike Dorf has this column on a potential Catholic majority on the Supreme Court.
The First Amendment Center has this analysis of Judge Alito’s jurisprudence and commercial speech.

Here is the video from ACS’s panel on the nomination of Judge Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. The panel featured:

Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center;
Ralph Neas, President, People for the American Way;
Nancy Zirkin, Deputy Director and Director of Public Policy, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and
Bruce Fein, Bruce Fein & Associates and former Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan Administration

In non-nomination news:
Here is a PrawfsBlawg post on the Court’s decision to grant cert in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Eugene Volokh comments here, discussing the ramifications of a potential Roberts recusal in the case.

Finally, a network of law students has begun to form against the Alito nomination. They have started a web page/blog that can be found here. They have kicked off a contest inviting students to write with questions they would ask Judge Alito in his confirmation hearings. In their own words:

What questions should Senators ask to force Judge Alito to explain his conservative viewpoints to the American people? Dahlia Lithwick has suggested a few to get us started at the end of this recent piece in Slate. E-mail us or post your questions here and we will send the best to the Judiciary Committee. If a radical conservative is going to be appointed to the Supreme Court, America deserves to know exactly what that will mean for our future.