Recapping Tuesday

With so much news on multiple fronts, here’s a quick guide to the day that was:

The Supreme Court began a new sitting at 10 AM by releasing an Order List and three opinions; they can be downloaded via this post, and our article recapping these developments is here. The Court then heard two hours of argument on sentencing issues; the transcripts are here, and our post detailing what was at stake is here. Commentary about today’s decision in Philip Morris, as well as articles about the arguments in Rita and Claiborne can be found in this Round-Up.

Meanwhile, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against the detainees at Guantanamo Bay this morning (see here). In the wake of the ruling, this post reports that the Justice Department immediately filed a brief asking Chief Justice Roberts to dismiss the case of Sharaf Al Sanani, a detainee who had a request pending before the Supreme Court. The lawyers for the detainees who lost in the D.C. Circuit also announced that they will be appealing to the Supreme Court shortly, and that they will ask the Court to expedite the case in order to have it decided this Term (see here).

Also today, we posted our list of “Petitions to Watch” for Friday’s Conference here, and we made available, via this post, the respondent’s brief in Wilkie v. Robbins.