I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role clerks play and how they influence the way cases are accepted and decided. Obviously they play a huge role in Cert. Pool (which Justices Stevens and Alito forgo) as well as writing the opinions once they are ready to be distributed. In today’s order’s list (here), [...]

Audio files from the October Term 2007 are now online over at Oyez. You can find them here. Recommended listens: Announcement of Boumediene v. Bush and Oral Arguments in Danforth v. Minnesota.