Blog Round-Up – Monday, January 16th
on Jan 16, 2006 at 10:29 am
The Court issued its opinion in United States v. Booker a year ago last week. This week the Legal Affairs Debate Club asks, “What is the future of sentencing?” Debating are, Douglas Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and editor of the blog Sentencing Law and Policy and Frank O. Bowman III, the Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at University of Missouri at Columbia School of Law.
Concurring Opinions has this post on what the market tells us about the Alito hearings. The blog also has this post posting that confirmation hearings are a “meaningless ritual.”
On the Huffington Post, Bill Scher has this post about the Alito hearings. He argues, among other things, that the Alito hearings demonstrated that we cannot take Judge Alito at his word.
PrawfsBlawg has this post on Crawford with links to other resources on the Confrontation clause including and briefs filed in Hammon v. Indiana and Davis v. Washington.
