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Weekend Blog Round-Up

In nomination news:

Concurring Opinions asks, “Is Alito Strongly Pro-Privacy?”
The Legal Ethics Forum has this post on “Judge Alito and the Vanguard Recusal Question.”
The Brady Campaign released this statement on Alito and a ban on fully automatic machine guns. The Volokh Conspiracy responds here.
Black Prof Blog has another post on Alito and civil rights.

In non-nomination news:

PropertyProf Blog has this post on “Using Superprecedent to Save the Commerce Clause.”
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends “What Roe V. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision,” edited by Jack M. Balkin.
The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on Georgia v. Randolph, No. 04-1067, a Fourth Amendment case involving third-party consent to search a home. The Court will hear oral arguments in the case on Tuesday morning.
Sentencing Law and Policy has this post with links to criminal justice-related reviews of the 2004-2005 Supreme Court term.