Weekly Roundup, October 2, 2015

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Oyez has a new and improved look!  Allie Bernstein tells us all about it.

ISCOTUS Director Christopher Schmidt gets to the bottom of Justice Scalia’s widely noted comment about his “four colleagues” who were ready to strike down the death penalty.  (He was misquoted.)

Richard Hasen explains how “the future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time.”

The New York Times laid out the events in the timeline of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, whose execution is now scheduled on November 6. The Supreme Court, which last term rejected Glossip’s challenge to Oklahoma’s method of execution, has refused to intervene.

Orin Kerr imagines what a confirmation hearing in 2035 will look like.  (Hint: It’s all about tweets and Facebook friendship.)

The New York Times had an obituary for Doug Kendall, founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center and a vocal critic of the Supreme Court’s conservatives.  Randy Barnett praised Kendall as “a true gentleman who loved the Constitution.”

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