Round-Up

UPDATE: Ken Jost of CQ Weekly has this column about the partial-birth abortion cases.

UPDATE: Marcia Coyle has an article here (subscription req’d) in the National Law Journal about the upcoming case Weyerhaeuser v. Ross-Simmons Lumber

ABC News has posted the complete transcript of Monday’s hour-long discussion between Jan Crawford Greenburg and the Chief Justice here. The online transcript is of the complete interview, most of which was not shown on Monday’s “Nightline” broadcast (the complete interview lasted over an hour).

Linda Greenhouse writes here in the New York Times about Justice O’Connor’s revelation that baked-goods laced with rat poison were sent to the Supreme Court last year.

The AP’s Mark Sherman had this report from the first day of the annual convention of the Federalist Society; speakers yesterday included Justice Alito and Solicitor General Clement.

Martin Magnusson wonders here on the ACSBlog, “Are Federal Judicial Salaries Adequate?”

At the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Deepak Gupta has this post discussing some of the top-side briefs in the Safeco and Geico FCRA cases (we posted the complete set of briefs yesterday here).