Blog Round-Up – Monday, February 6th

Here Charles Lane from the Washington Post has an article on Paul Gregory House, a Tennessee inmate on death row. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear his case, which involves a clarification of the rules for “actual innocence” claims.

Concurring Opinions has this post on the Alito hearings and “The Meaning of “Well Settled Law.”

The Volokh Conspiracy has this post on the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.

In the New York Times, Kathleen Sullivan reviews “Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution,” by Justice Stephen Breyer.

BlackProf has this post on a speech Justice Ginsburg recently gave at the UCLA School of Law.

This week, the Legal Theory Bookworm recommends “A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law” by Antonin Scalia, with comments by Gordon Wood, Laurence Tribe, Mary Ann Glendon, and Ronald Dworkin. The Download of the Week is “Scalia’s Infidelity: A Critique of Faint-Hearted Originalism” by Randy Barnett.

Sentencing Law & Policy has this update on the lethal injection litigation.

Underneath Their Robes is reporting that Justice Alito has picked up two of Justice O’Connor’s clerks.

On FindLaw, Vikram Amar has this commentary, titled, ” Reflections on The Supreme Court Confirmation Process After Roberts and Alito:Its Virtues and Flaws, and Why Senator Obama’s Take is the Right One.”