Thursday, The Last Day of the 2007 Term: Tony Mauro at Blog of the Legal Times (BLT) has a post on what will happen tomorrow, Thursday, June 26, when the U.S. Supreme Court releases all remaining cases that are "ready" from the Court's 2007 docket. For those of us who have been watching the Court, this means we should see an opinion in D.C. v. Heller tomorrow.
Also, on BLT is a post from Joe Palazzolo on the recent survey from the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, which found "one out of every two federal prosecutors reported having been threatened or assaulted at least once in their careers."

McCain's Reaction to Kennedy v. Louisiana: Matthew Franck at Bench Memos reports on McCain's reaction to today's Kennedy decision. Franck agrees with McCain's reference to the activist approach of the majority opinion. Franck states "It is not the province of a judge to act on what he believes is "deserving" punishment for such an offense, notwithstanding several decades of mistaken jurisprudence premised on the contrary. But Justice Kennedy's majority obviously believes it is the province of judges to act on their mere beliefs about such matters. But Justice Kennedy's majority obviously believes it is the province of judges to act on their mere beliefs about such matters."

Big Day For A Supreme Court Advocate: Dan Slater at the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog posted today's "Lawyer of the Day" comment on Stanford Law Professor Jeffrey Fisher. Apparently, Fisher argued in both Kennedy v. Louisiana and Exxon v. Baker, today's most heavily blogged on decisions. Slater reports that while Fisher's argument did not win in Baker, Fisher's view on where the Court stands on "the evolution of the country’s so-called evolving standards of decency" did resurface in Kennedy's majority opinion for Kennedy v. Louisiana.