Blog Round-Up – Thursday, February 16th

Here is Bloomberg.com with an article on Alito’s new clerk hires.

The First Amendment Center has posted this article by Tony Mauro on Justice Alito’s chance to weigh in on the First Amendment in Randall v. Sorrell, Sorrell v. Randall and Vermont Republican State Committee v. Sorrell.

Here is the New York Times with an article on Justice Breyer’s early days on the court. Here is the University of Chicago Faculty Blog with a post on the day in the life of Justice Breyer.

This week the Legal Affairs Debate Club asks whether or not the Attorney General should be independent.

Sentencing Law & Policy has this post titled, ” What should and will SCOTUS do with the state Blakely cases?”

PrawfsBlawg has this post on the briefing in Hamdan.