Blog Round-Up – Friday, November 11th

As How Appealing points out, this was a banner week for bloggers – three of them argued before the Supreme Court – two on Tuesday alone.

In non-nomination news:

Crime & Federalism has this post on why the Supreme Court should grant cert in Johnson v. Meadows. At issue in Meadows is whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which requires prisoners to exhaust administrative remedies before bringing a Section 1983 action against prison officials, also contains a procedural default component.
PrawfsBlawg has this post on the Graham Amendment. Passed by the Senate earlier this week, the Amendment which would strip federal courts of the jurisdiction to entertain habeas petitions by Guantanamo detainees. The post explores what this means for Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
In Slate, Dahlia Lithwich has this article on the Court contemplating disability rights for prisoners. On NPR Nina Totenberg discusses the issue here. At issue in United States v. Georgia and Goodman v. Georgia, argued on Wednesday, is whether Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act allows disabled prisoners in state prisons to sue for damages when their rights under the ADA have been violated.
Tony Mauro has this article on the Supreme Court being asked to hear a Voting Rights case involving felony disfranchisement, Johnson v. Bush. At issue is a challenge to Florida’s 1968 law that permanently disenfranchises more than 800,000 convicted felons in the state.
Here is an update on major events coming out of New London in response to Kelo.
Here are Orin Kerr’s latest thoughts on Georgia v. Randolph. Tom Goldstein and Kerr discuss the case in the comments to the post.

In nomination news, Sentencing Law & Policy has this post on a discussion between Judge Alito and Senator Feingold on the death penalty.