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Blogosphere comments on SCOTUS death cases

By Douglas Berman

I still haven’t yet had a chance to read all the SCOTUS death decisions today, but I notice that many thoughtful bloggers are all over these cases:

  • Kent Scheidegger at Crime & Consequences discusses all the cases here and here.
  • Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy covers the basics here and spotlights here the closing zinger CJ Roberts has in his dissent.
  • Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog has this long commentary on the AEDPA cases (which seem likely to have the most long-term consequences).

Even before reading the opinions, I cannot help but note the 5-4 outcomes and the obvious inability of the new Chief to engineer consensus in this arena (as I predicted here).