Yesterday's SCOTUS action

As previously discussed here, the Supreme Court yesterday considered Wilkinson v. Austin concerning what hearing process is required before an inmate can be transferred to a "supermax" facility.  Reports on the argument are provided by this AP article and this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.

The Court also issued an opinion in a habeas case, Rhines v. Weber, concerning the consideration of "mixed" habeas corpus petitions (that is, a petition containing both exhausted claims and unexhausted claims).  The Second Circuit Blog has a localized discussion of Rhines here.

And speaking of SCOTUS, I have the honor this morning of sharing a studio with Lyle Denniston who reports on the Court for SCOTUSblog.  Lyle and I will be discussing Blakely issues and death penalty issues as part of a show put together by the The Massachusetts School of Law's "A Question of Law" program.