Blog Round-Up- Sunday, January 1st
Here is Concurring Opinions with a post on judges’ salaries. In his first year-end report Chief Justice Roberts argues that Congress should immediately increases the salaries of federal judges.
The Washington Posts’ Campaign for the Supreme Court has this post on Judge Alito’s opinions. The Post also has this article on Judge Alito’s opinions, claiming that the nominee’s record defies stereotyping.
On Sentencing Law & Policy here are Douglas Berman’s thoughts on Judge Roberts’ end-of-year report as they relate to sentencing.
On a lighter note, Article III Groupie is back online and the New York Times is reporting that Justice Scalia may be funnier than Justice Ginsburg. Concurring Opinions comments here.
Funniest lines from the Post article on Judge Alito:
The idea of trying to gauge a judge’s ideology from his voting patterns on different types of cases is unpopular among law professors who prefer to study legal reasoning case by case. But the method used by The Post is well accepted among political scientists — many of whom clump together votes on types of cases to determine whether a judge is liberal or conservative, a step The Post did not take.
I say if the quality of his legal reasoning is not the key, why not bring in psychiatrists, men and women of the cloth, and the UN General Assembly, so we can take the real measure of the man.
Comment by rodgerlodger — January 2, 2006 @ 9:56 am