AP has an interesting article that includes many quotes from Justice Breyer on the functioning of the new court under John Roberts. He says there's more debate behind the scenes now, which is not a surprise. Insiders had long said that Rehnquist allowed very little debate during the justice's conferences before assigning the opinions to be written. Scalia had long complained about that and lobbied for more open debate among the justices.
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Jay Wexler, a colleague of Randy Barnett at Boston University law school, has compiled the first study of how funny each Supreme Court justice is.
The late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun left all of his papers to the Library of Congress, as is customary, and asked that they be relased on the 5th anniversary of his death on March 4, 1999. That release was made this week.
Orin Kerr makes a couple of interesting points in his post on Volokh about O'Connor's retirement:
CNN has a long review of the job Chief Justice John Roberts is doing so far at the Supreme Court. By all accounts, the other justices have embraced him and he has shown great understanding of and affinity for court tradition.