Afternoon Round-Up

At How Appealing, Howard Bashman links to C-SPAN’s on-demand streams of today’s arguments here.

At the Volokh Conspiracy, guest blogger Joanne Jacobs discusses the school integration issue here.

The AP’s report from the Court this afternoon can be found here, and on NPR, Dahlia Lithwick appeared on Day to Day in a segment that can be heard here. Also on NPR, the program Talk of the Nation covered today’s cases in a program that included guests David Savage of the L.A. Times, Mike Small of Akin Gump who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National School Board Association, and Sharon Browne of the Pacific Legal Foundation; the program can be heard here.

At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman wonders here if there is lack of consensus among the Justices that is causing opinions to be issued at a slower pace than last term.

Finally, Liz Halloran of U.S. News & World Report discusses in this article what might happen if a Supreme Court vacancy opens now that the Senate will be led by the Democrats; Ed Whelan responds at the blog Bench Memos here.