Professor Michael McConnell (Stanford) has a comprehensive and incisive review of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decisions at First Things.  He says that as a whole, last year was comparatively calm when one takes a peek at the cases on for 2011.  I got pretty excited about some of the decisions that McConnell discusses (and I found it very interesting that he would have signed on to Justice Alito’s concurrence in Brown v. EMA, the violent video games decision) but I agree with him about this term.  A must read!!  — MOD [x-posted MOJ]