Blog Round-Up – Thursday, December 8th

Here is Positive Liberty on backlash from Kelo. BizzyBlog comments here.

Sentencing Law & Policy has posted this follow-up to previous entries on Alito and the death penalty. Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu recently wrote an LA Times commentary piece that was highly critical of the work of Judge Sam Alito in capital cases during his tenure as a Third Circuit judge. Yesterday, George Mason law professor Horace Cooper had this related commentary over at Townhall.com.

Here historian David J. Garrow reviews Law Professor Jack M. Balkin’s new book, “What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: America’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision” in the Autumn 2005 issue of The Green Bag. On PrawfsBlawg Will Baude comments on the piece.

The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on Justice Robert’s first opinion, which was handed down yesterday in Martin v. Franklin Capital Corporation. Tony Mauro also has this article on the opinion.

PrawfsBlawg asks, Is the RFRA Unconstitutional?, in light of Justice Scalia’s concurrence in Lockhart.