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Tigerhawk examines fallout from NARAL’s aborted smear ad against SCOTUS nominee John Roberts. The group’s communications director has “resigned”, and as Tigerhawk notes:
I find it hard to believe that NARAL’s communication director would quit in the teeth of a nomination battle without having been pushed out. It is a virtually certainty that NARAL gave him [...]

In Opinion Journal this morning, Manuel Miranda nails loony NARAL for its inexcusable attack ad against SCOTUS nominee John Roberts:
The ladies who gave Plato’s “noble lie” new uses in the hearings of Clarence Thomas are at it again. NARAL is using the image of the abortion clinic bombing by Eric Rudolph to suggest that Judge [...]

Intense reaction to the N.Y. Times’ journalistic dumpster diving into the sealed adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ two young children continues to pour in. Here’s a sample of the letters I’m getting. Won’t it be interesting to see whether the Times letters page bothers to print as many?
From Reader Jeff K:
I’m sure [...]

On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the Kamehameha Schools, a private school in Hawaii, can no longer discriminate against students who are not of native Hawaiian descent.
Associated Press reports:
Overturning a Honolulu federal judge’s decision supporting the school, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

The Left’s opposition to John Roberts is getting so ridiculous (see Bench Memos, Power Line, Charmaine Yoest, The Corner, and John Cornyn’s website, among others, for background), that it’s almost beyond spoofing.

John at Wuzzadem takes a stab–and scores.

Time and again, Washington Post Style reporter Robin Givhan hides behind fashion snarking and culture reporting to savage conservatives. She did it with Katherine Harris and Dick Cheney and John Bolton–and I’m sure you can remember many more examples of partisan mockery.
Well, today’s conservative-bashing Style commentary sinks to the lowest low. The piece, “An Image [...]

So, last night during the SCOTUS press conference, you may have noticed the facial expressions of President Bush and John Roberts’ wife. Glenn Reynolds did.
So did the readers at Daily Kos.
Why the faces? Because John Roberts’ adorable little son decided to break dance during the momentous event. Dirty Harry has the hilarious photos. Here’s one:

(*Update* [...]

Trust you’ve seen the Drudge flash on fearless Ann Coulter’s comments about John Roberts. Ann’s full piece is up at her website.
It’s titled “Souter in Roberts clothing,” and concludes:
He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.
Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” [...]

On the left, the NYTimes editorial board warns that if it doesn’t get a Sandra Day O’Connor clone, we will all end up breathing dirty air, working in salt mines, and handing over our children to do slave labor!
Mark Coffey reacts to the NYT’s editorial here.
Meanwhile, Manuel Miranda, who launches a SCOTUS column for the [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

***See update: John Roberts***
So, it’s not Clement.
Then who?
The others:
There was early speculation about Judge Edith Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, but Republicans indicated later she was not the nominee. Another female candidate thought to be under consideration was Edith Hollan Jones, who serves on the same court.
Among the women being [...]

WaPo says an announcement may come as early as this afternoon.
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog has all the lowdown on rumored frontrunner Edith Clement. (Update: Rolling list of Clement’s noteworthy opinions.)
Jonathan Adler comments on lefty Nan Aron’s wishes.
Christopher Flannery likes Justice Alice Batchelder.
ProLife Blogs takes a look at the two Ediths.
FOX News reports [...]

The Hill’s report that Alberto Gonzales will not be the next Supreme Court nominee has many conservatives breathing easier.
Tom Goldstein at The Supreme Court Nomination Blog stands by his prediction that the pick will be Priscilla Owens.
Matthew Franck at Bench Memos notes a Fox News report that Sen. Robert Byrd is getting pre-approval prerogative. Say [...]

Is this what AP reporter Hope Yen meant when she wrote last month that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the property rights of cable companies would “limit competition and consumers’ choices” for broadband services?
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Hospitalized for fever. WaPo:
The chief justice had been coming to the court daily but did not show up as usual Wednesday morning. Court officials initially declined to say why he was absent or explain unusual happenings at Rehnquist’s Arlington home.
Members of the media near the residence saw a court police officer make several trips to [...]

Hah! Serves him right.
Meantime, Bureaucrash is holding a protest on the Supreme Court steps tomorrow dubbed “Operation Our Land.”
Keep on top of new land grabs at Eminent Domain Watch.
Get in touch with other property rights activists at The Castle Coalition’s online forum.

The Supremes uphold the property rights of cable companies. An ISP named Brand X had argued that it should be allowed to use infrastructure that the cable companies had built.
In a bit of editorializing, AP reports that the decision “will limit competition and consumers’ choices.”
In fact, the decision will encourage cable companies to invest in [...]

The SCOTUS struck a big blow for digital copyright protections this morning. Associated Press reports:
Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets such [...]

The (right side of the) blogosphere’s response to yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling on Kelo v. New London has been stunning. And heartening. Eminent domain isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks “blogswarm.” But the fierce reaction to the decision shows that core economic liberty issues can still unite disparate factions of [...]

The Supreme Court’s decision in the New London eminent domain case is in, and it’s a devastating blow against homeowners and private property rights:
A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often [...]

The Supreme Court weighed in today on the pros and cons of file-sharing (which I’ve blogged about here, here, and here). Record companies and movie studios have sued to shut down peer-to-peer software makers such as Grokster and Morpheus, arguing that the millions of songs and movies copied each day over these networks have cut [...]

I agree with this op-ed in today’s Washington Post by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, which questions the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court slapped down the Bush Administration in the “war on terrorism” cases. An excerpt:
[W]hen all these cases are read together — the Guantanamo Bay case, along with the court’s [...]

Terrific op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo (link is for subscribers only):
Taken as a whole, the Court’s message is unmistakable: The days when terrorism was merely considered a law enforcement problem and our only forces were limited to the FBI, federal prosecutors and the criminal justice system [...]

Wading through this morning’s Supreme Court rulings on the Guantanamo Bay detainees and enemy combatants, at least one thing is immediately clear. The use of the military tribunals that the Bush administration fought so hard for is loooong overdue. Background here and here, including an unexpected defense of military tribunals from John Dean.
Update: Just as [...]