Surprise!

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has resigned.

I was thinking we might not have a mudfest to observe this summer. Not now.

I'm still reading SCOTUS. This paragraph:

If that happens, the dispute that would follow in the Senate may well make pale, by comparison, the fight in 1987 over replacing Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -- who, like O'Connor -- held the balance of power on the Court. The controversy that arose over nominee Robert Bork, ultimately leading to his defeat as Powell's successor, was about nothing less than the future of the Court. That could be at stake all over again.

is what I've been mulling over for a couple of months.

See also SCTNomination, which has a list of potential nominees.