Blog Round-Up – Thursday, December 1st

In nomination news:

Here is the 64 page questionnaire Judge Alito submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sentencing Law & Policy responds to the sentencing issues in the questionnaire here.

On FindLaw, Rick Hasen has this post titled, “One Person, One Filibuster? Judge Alito’s Controversial Comment on a Supreme Court Voting Rights Case.”

Blogging on ACSBlog, Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer, Assistant Professor of Law at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University has this post, titled, “Is Alito the State’s Advocate in Criminal Cases?”

On Balkinization Marty Lederman has this post on Alito’s membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a group apparently devoted to the retention of quotas that had excluded women and minorities from Princeton.

In non-nomination news:

Concurring Opinions has this post on becoming a Supreme Court clerk that responds to this article featuring a newly hired Thomas clerk.

On the Volokh Conspiracy David Bernstein has this post on Congress’ responsibility for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

The Legal Affairs Debate Club has re-posted a 2004 debate on the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. Debating are Phillip Carter, a former U.S. Army officer and recent graduate of UCLA Law School; he co-authored an amicus brief supporting the government and the Solomon Amendment in FAIR v. Rumsfeld and Adam A. Sofen, a plaintiff in SAME v. Rumsfeld.

Jack Balkin has a series of posts on the oral arguments in Ayotte. The most recent on can be found here.