David Souter Retiring, Obama gets to make first SCOTUS pick

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by a.e.B.O.T.

I am super excited that Obama gets a Supreme Court pick, because with the Congress leading democrat, this should be fun, too bad Souter is generally on the liberal wing though (being the most moderate of them), when will Thomas retire... WHEN?!?

here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...ing/index.html

Why would Clarence Thomas retire during a Democratic administration? Some of the liberal and moderate members of the Court may retire now, so we can expect that the conservative justices would wait until they could guarantee that someone like-minded would take their place. Clearly, O'Connor's retirement was an exception, but she retired more for family health reasons.

One of my professors went to Oxford and HLS with Souter; they apparently became life-long friends. Souter spoke at my professor's memorial service back in September. He had some great stories--a really funny guy.