Blog Round-up – Monday, September 5th

In Legal Affairs, here is former Rehnquist clerk Richard Garnett arguing that the conservative principles William Rehnquist revived will guide the court for decades to come, making him one of the most dominant chief justices in American history. Kermit Roosevelt responds here, arguing that Justice Rehnquist cared more about expanding his court’s power than sparking a conservative revolution.

The Volokh Conspiracy has:

This post on why the President may have chosen Roberts as Chief Justice.
This post on whether the President should nominate Janice Rogers Brown to fill Justice O’Connor’s seat.
This post on a New York Times article by Linda Greenhouse that includes comments from a rare interview with Justice Souter that sheds some light about the last Supreme Court term and the health of Chief Justice Rehnquist.

On the Huffington Post, Alan Dershowitz has written this entry on what he believes are the downsides of Justice Rehnquist’s legacy.

Here PrawfsBlawg has a post asking “How does the unique political moment impact the SCOTUS nomination?”

Sentencing Law & Policy has this wrap-up of the summer’s sentencing news, discussing the impact of the Supreme Court transitions on sentencing jurisprudence.

A webcast of an interview Ann Althouse did with Wisconsin Public Radio on the Chief Justices’ passing is available here.

Supreme Court Extra has this post by a former O’Connor clerk on Justice Rehnquist’s legacy. The blog also discusses Judge Roberts and the court-stripping movement here.

Here is Balkinization on Justice Rehnquist’s legacy. Professor Balkin refers to this essay he wrote about greatness in Supreme Court Justices arguing that what makes Justices great in the eyes of the future is quite different from the things the President looks for (and should look for) when deciding whether to appoint them.

On a lighter note:
Underneath Their Robes has compiled the blog’s past musings on Justice Rehnquist here.
The Center for Individual Freedom has published this parody on John Roberts and the Third Amendment.

UPDATE:

Here is ElectionLaw Blogger Rick Hasen’s predictions on a “Chief Justice Roberts, The Next Nominee, and the Ideological Balance of the Court.”

Here is Professor Edward Lee of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University on Justice Rehnquist and IP law.

Sentencing Law & Policy also has this entry pondering the Supreme Court cert pool and arguing that there are many post-Blakely and post-Booker questions that merit the Supreme Court’s immediate attention and this “head count” on the status of the votes and views of the current seven Justices.