Well-worth Reading

There's an interesting article by Jonathan Bernstein on Salon, making the case why now is the time for Supreme Court Justice to retire.  His point centers around her being a significant liberal voice for decades, and if she wants that voice preserved, it can be best done while the president has at least a chance of replacing her with a similar one.  As he also notes, there isn't a great deal of precedence for this, but then there also isn't a great deal of precedence in having such a bitterly divided Senate where the minority can rule and block almost whatever it wants.