Blog Round- Up – Tuesday, November 22nd
on Nov 22, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Issue 2 of The Pocket Part, The Yale Law Journal’s online companion publication is now available.
In this issue, Harvard Professor Kenneth Mack takes on the conventional historical account of the NAACP litigation strategy that led to Brown v. Board of Education. Professor Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia Law School, the author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, responds, along with Eva Patterson, President of the Equal Justice Society.
Opinio Juris has this post on Jose Padilla’s indictment. PrawfsBlawg also has this post on the case. Here is Jack Balkin on the indictments.
The National Journal has this article asking, “Alito And His Critics: Who Is Outside The Mainstream?”
Slate has this article titled, “Sandra Day O’Connor: A new look at the Supreme Court’s enigmatic ‘controlling force.'”
On the Volokh Conspiracy Randy Barnett has this post on the current status of Raich in the Ninth Circuit.
Here is a memo prepared by Frances H. Pratt from the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Alexandria, Virginia on Criminal Cases in the current Supreme Court Term.
According to ACSBlog Justice Scalia is claiming that Vice President Gore was responsible for the 2000 election controversy.