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The Remaining Supreme Court Decisions: Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog posted his predictions for the 2007-2008 cases that are still unresolved. Based on his SCOTUS sudoku method, Goldstein predicts Justice Scalia is the author of District of Columbia v. Heller, indicating a probably win for the would-be gun owner. He also predicts that Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Alito are the likely authors of opinions for Giles v. California and Kennedy v. Louisiana but concedes these predictions are "wild speculation." Critiquing Epstein's take on Boumediene: Ed Whalen at Bench Memos critiques a point made by Richard Epstein in an Op-ed Epstein wrote for Saturday's New York Times. Whalen's post points to Epstein's comment "Nothing in the suspension clause distinguishes citizens from aliens...continue to full post

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