Chief Justice Roberts and the 11-day Gap:
Michael Froomkin and Steve Vladeck have co-authored a very interesting post about whether and when the D.C. Circuit can issue opinions with John Roberts on the panel following his resignation from the D.C. Circuit. Ann Bartow's comment seems about right to me: "This is completely awesome pedantic weeniedom, and I mean that in the best possble way."
fnook (mail):
As a real live resident of downtown DC, all praise the beauty of pednatic weeniedom! The disenfranchised among us will take what we can get, and we're not ashamed of exploiting procedural technacalities. Rule of law, dude.
11.5.2005 12:23am
Hoosier:
I'd like to see this issue taken to SCOTUS. Let them decide. But does Roberts have to recuse himself?

(Please, please, please . . . I'm just kidding.)
11.5.2005 1:47pm
Phil (mail):
Could SCOTUS fix this with a nunc pro tunc order?
11.5.2005 5:01pm
Lorenzo (mail):
When the Pope decided to correct the Gregorian calendar, peasants demonstrated in front of churches, demanding "Give us back out eleven days!" Where are the protests?
11.6.2005 5:16pm