Blog Round-Up – Sunday, November 13th

The New York Times has this article discussing Law Students Against Alito and the dissatisfaction members of the Yale Law community are feeling with the Alito nomination. Concurring Opinions discusses the article here, asking if Yale Law School owes anything to Alito.

Blue Mass Group has this post on Judge Alito’s 1990 Senate questionnaire. An emerging issue in the Alito Supreme Court nomination has been his participation in cases involving parties such as Vanguard (in which he had invested a substantial amount of money) and his sister’s law firm.

Here is more coverage of Alito’s criminal law record courtesy of Sentencing Law & Policy.

Balkinization has this post on balancing the Court. Balkin argues that while Presidents are not required to preserve ideological balance on the Supreme Court, other people have a right to oppose the President if they believe that the new nominee will shift the Court in directions that they believe are bad for the country and inconsistent with the best interpretation of the Constitution.

The Legal Theory Blog’s Download of the Week is Mark Graber of the University of Maryland’s The Jacksonian Makings of the Taney Court.