judgements

Now that we have a supreme court nominee we want to consider how to judge him:

• His opinions in NON UNANIMOUS decisions
  
• His opinions
• New York Times analysis
  
• His "work" affiliations
  
• His positions (as employee)
  
• His supporters/opponents
  

In addition we could consider that he would be a Thomas, Scalia type judge. This means we want to look at how the court is currently organized and what decisions would be changed if 5/4 decisions with the Thomas/Scelea as in the "4" were in the "5", See:

A Mathematician Crunches the Supreme Court's Numbers (NICHOLAS WADE, June 24, 2003, NY Times)

A pattern analysis of the second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court -- Dr. Sirovich has found that just two dimensions are needed to describe almost all the decisions of the Rehnquist court. [Abstract]

7 Questions for John Roberts -- What I'd like the Senate to ask the Supreme Court nominee (Reason)

Five Questions for Roberts (Dallas news)

Reader questions (Newsweek blog)

Republican internal briefing memo on Roberts by kos, Jul 21st, 2005

Judical review...

• Judical review and executive responsibility, {The supreme court should only judge judical decisions} Alen Keyes
• Constitution in Exile? {Many of the decisions after 1937 were in error}-- Cass Sunstein and Randy Barnett legal affairs > debate club archives.
• On Constitutional Interpretation- Originalism v. A Living Constitution - Daily Kos
  

• Supreme court blog (Nomination)
  
• Becker and Posner log on Economics and Law
• Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice"
• The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court in American Politics
  

John Roberts re: Federalist Society

What Could He Rule On? (DailyKos) -- The faith of John Roberts -- If he had to rule on an issue that the Catholic Church considers a sin, ...he would have to recuse himself -- (latimes)

Durbin disputes column on Roberts , Charles Hurt, (wahington times) -- It never happened?

A John Roberts Roundup -- Slate

5 recent cases that were decided 5/4 that Roberts could be asked about (nyt)

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Judical-Nomination BLOG (ACS) is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations

Previous wematter postings: Activists , Candidates

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Also interesting

Stigmatized Abortion -- Three positions on abortion seem possible. One view is that abortion should (almost) always be legal. Another is that abortion should (almost) always be illegal. The third is that abortion should be legal, but stigmatized, Jack M. Balkin