Round-Up

Here, Dahlia Lithwick of Slate has her thoughts on the Chief Justice’s year-end report calling the current state of judicial pay a “constitutional crisis;” Dahlia also links to several other reactions, including those of Matthew Frank, Sandy Levinson, Doug Powers, and Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal. Additionally, the comments of Ilya Somin, writing at the Volokh Conspiracy, are here.

In the New York Sun, Joe Goldstein has this article about different cases involving the visitation rights of grandparents, including a case with a pending cert. petition before the Supreme Court.

Here, Jan Crawford Greenburg of ABC News has a rare interview with Justice Stevens, while David Lat of Above the Law has his reaction to what the Justice said here.

At the ACSBlog, Martin Magnusson previews upcoming federal sentencing cases before the Court here.

In today’s L.A. Times, David Savage has this article about the occasions when even a loss at the Supreme Court can help an organization’s cause [via How Appealing].

Finally, Rick Hasen of the Election Law Blog here has a few brief thoughts about the motion to expedite in the Wisconsin Right to Life election law case and links to his earlier blog posts about the dispute. Our earlier post discussing this development can be found here.