The Majestic Nine

The clouds have opened, and it seems that President Obama has an impending Supreme Court opening at the end of the current session. Granted, it won't because of someone who will change the makeup of the court radically. Justice David Souter announced last week that he will retire. It's too bad, but when you figure it's your time to go, why not go on your own accord? It seems, through what I've read, that he's not a big fan of Washington, and I don't blame him. But since his job required him to be there, you make the best of it for as long as you can.
But for Souter's replacement, of all the endless names that have been put forth... the four that I like are (in no particular order): Elena Kagan (current solicitor general), Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Federal 2nd Circuit), and Governor Jennifer Granholm (MI), and Pamela Karlan (professor at Stanford Law).

There was an interesting blog post that I came across today. It was about how the prison-industrial complex is expanding and the political opportunism of politicians of being "tough on crime".

And a little lighter note: George Bush's Presidential Librarium!

Thank you and good night!