It’s Official
By a vote of 78-22, John Roberts has been confirmed as the new Chief Justice.
- Legal Times: DOJ Seeks Lawyers for Gitmo Cases
- Legal Times: With Footnote, Souter Causes Stir
- NPR: Supreme Court Ends Term On Ideological Edge
- CS Monitor: Guantánamo Detainees: shorter wait?
- Legal Times: Next Term: A Fatter, Faster Calendar for Supreme Court
- WaPo: Lots of Questions, Little Agreement at D.C. Hearing on Gun Laws
- NYT: Justice Dept. Admits Error in Not Briefing Court
- NYT: In Court Ruling on Executions, a Factual Flaw
- AP: FBI Chief: Gun Ruling Makes Campuses Less Secure
- WaPo: Surprising Fact: Half of Gun Deaths are Suicides
- WaPo: Gun Bill Provides for Self-Defense
- NYT: Guantánamo Detainee Faces War Crimes Charges in Attack on Destroyer
- NYT: Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case
- Legal Times: Alan Gura’s Victory Lap
- Legal Times: Supreme Court Wrap-Up: (Mostly) In Tune
- Legal Times: Despite June Fireworks, a Calmer Supreme Court Term
- NPR: Supreme Court Ends Term with Tough Decisions
- CSM: A Less Deferential High Court
- NY Sun: Why Not Here?
- NY Sun: Supreme Court Decision May Permit Felons To Own Guns
- Washington Times: Gun Ruling’s Impact on Election Unclear
- Washington Times: Gun Ruling’s Impact on Election Unclear
- LAT: Supreme Court Blocs Rarely Wavered
- AP: Long Quiet, Justices End Their Term with a Growl
- WaPo: A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right
- WaPo: Gun Shops Await New D.C. Rules
- NYT: Challenges to Bans on Handguns Begin
- NYT: On Court That Defied Labeling, Kennedy Made the Boldest Mark
- NYT: Important Supreme Court Decisions, 2007-2008
- WSJ: Individual Rights Make Headway
- WaPo: Supreme Slip-Up
- WaPo: Decider on the High Court
- WaPo: Packing Protection
- WSJ: The Enemy Detainee Mess
- NYT: A Supreme Court on the Brink
- NYT: Of Whales and National Security
- CQ: High Court’s Campaign Finance Ruling Poses Threat to State Laws
- FindLaw: The Lessons of the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision Granting a Huge Victory to Exxon in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
- WSJ: After Guantanamo
- Legal Times: Court Misfired on Safety Case for Guns
- Legal Times: Decency Demanded ‘No’ Vote on Death
- First Amendment Center: Davis: Leveling rich candidates’ speech unjustified
- National law Journal: Punitives Take Hit in ‘Exxon’ Ruling, but How Hard?
- WaPo: The Court vs. Voters
- First Amendment Center: Leveling Rich Candidates’ Speech Unjustified
- Legal Times: Supreme Court Watch
- FindLaw: The Supreme Court’s Blockbuster Second Amendment Ruling: What the Court Resolved and What it Left Open
- NY Sun: Heller’s Kitchen
- LAT: The Evolving Supreme Court
- WSJ: Some Gun Rules We Can All Agree On
- WSJ: Common Sense on Punitive Damages
- WaPo: Punishing an Enormity
- WaPo: Guns for Safety? Dream On, Scalia.
- WaPo: Millionaires Win
- WaPo: Obama’s Dodge on Handguns
- WaPo: A Death Penalty Puzzle
- WaPo: Guns: The Next Step
- NYT: The Chief Justice, Dylan and the Disappearing Double Negative
- NYT: Gun Laws and Crime: A Complex Relationship
- NYT: It’s Nice to Be Rich
- Balkinization: Overestimating the importance of the Supreme Court (and Justice Kennedy)
- Setnencing Law: Could All the Mistakes in Kennedy Be Corrected?
- Sentencing Law: Looking Ahead to SCOTUS Docket Dynamics
- Convictions: If a Federal Statute Falls in the Forest and No One’s Around, Does It Make a Sound (or Undermine What Would Otherwise Be a “National Consensus”)?
- Balkinization: Does the Constitution Protect a Substantive Right to Hunt?
- Volokh: Don’t Believe Everything You Read
- Volokh: More on the Overlooked Military Law in Kennedy v. Louisiana
- BLT: Reopening Kennedy v. Louisiana?
- Dorf on Law: What Did You Know and When Did You Know It?
- NPR: Thurgood Marshall Would Turn 100 Today
- Balkinization: For Thurgood Marshall’s Centennial
- Balkinization: Is Heller an Original Meaning Decision?
- Concurring Opinions: Tribal Court Jurisdiction
- WaPo: McCain’s Supreme Court Judgment Calls
- WSJ Law Blog: NYT’s Greenhouse: Supreme Court Erred in Child Rape Case
- Faculty Lounge: Heller Highwater: Second Amendment Protection And The Criminal Law
- Sentencing Law and Policy: Prosecutorial headaches after Heller
- Balkinization: Through the Looking Glass: Indefinite Detention and the Parhat Case
- FindandReplace: Preserving the Right of Resistance
- Volokh: What’s Dionne Been Drinking?
- Concurring Opinions: So, what the Heller our friends at the ACLU going to do now?
- WSJ Law Blog: Court Chides Gov’t in Detainee Case: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
- The Faculty Lounge: Cass Sunstein Discovers Law Review Articles Can Kill
- Sentencing Law and Policy: Defense lawyers win: initial reflections on the SCOTUS term that was
- Convictions: Will Heller Implode?
- Convictions: Shareholders You Can Do Without
- Convictions: Roe and Partisan Entrenchment
- Convictions: Roe, Heller, Politics, and Jack
- Balkinization: Originalism and Guns Redux
- Balkinization: Money Talks, but is it Speech?
- Balkinization: Are Campaign-Finance Laws Inherently Incumbent Protecting? Are All Election Laws?
- Volokh: “Pledges of Centrism”
- Volokh: What is the right protected in the Heller dissent?
- Volokh: Were the Opinions in Heller Scholarly?
- Volokh: Why Campaign Finance Laws are Likely to be Incumbent-Protection Laws
- WSJ Law Blog: Scalia: ‘I Didn’t Bring it Into the Courts. Mr. Gore Brought it Into the Courts.’
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John Roberts Confirmed
John Roberts has been confirmed. Matt Margolis (Blogs for Bush) has been liveblogging the event. The SCOTUS blog has the news too.
The Volokh Conspiracy is also covering his confirmation. Now, who’ll end up filling the one remaining SCOTUS s…
Comment by T. Longren — September 29, 2005 @ 12:14 pm
And sworn in. Will he wear that curious Gilbert & Sullivan ensemble on Monday?
Comment by AllanCook — September 29, 2005 @ 3:15 pm
Has the group photograph of the Roberts Court been taken yet? If so, can anyone provide a link? If not, when will it be taken? I assume that, as O’Connor is still a Justice, they will not wait for her successor?
Comment by Graham — September 30, 2005 @ 7:51 pm