A few notes from around the blogosphere:

SCOTUS and the election: Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog has this long post on the OT 2007 term and the 2008 election. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he thinks the "liberal" side may win the highest profile cases of the term and the issue of the Supreme Court may be more effective at rallying the Republican base than the Democratic base. "In particular, conservatives in 2008 could use the five cases cited above to articulate a very coherent theme of 'law and order' and 'victims rights' around the need to move the Court one further step to the right."

The Duke lacrosse case is the subject of multiple guest posts at the Volokh Conspiracy by Stuart Taylor and K.C. Johnson, authors of a book on the subject. This post takes particular aim at the Group of 88, Duke U. faculty members.

DP & pleas: Doug Berman at SL&P weighs in on the Arellano case noted in today's News Scan and the impact of the death penalty on plea bargaining.

AEDPA Law & Policy Blog appears to be defunct. The last post there is for Panetti on June 28. That's unfortunate.

Acting AG Peter Keisler, and the NYT's snarky editorial, are the subjects of this post by Ed Whelan at Bench Memos.