The blawg-o-sphere is ripe with speculation over whether U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is contemplating retirement next year.
According to Law.com, Justice Stevens has only hired one law clerk for the term that begins in October 2010. He is among those justices who typically have hired all four clerks for the following year by now, according to legal blogs.
Admittedly, this is far from an official announcement. Perhaps Justice Stevens is just assuming that the down economy will leave him plenty of applicants no matter when he decides to hire. Or maybe the one clerk he's hired is a real go-getter that can take care of everything.
But if it is a sign that President Obama will get to pick another Supreme Court justice soon, we can hope (and perhaps begin to lobby) that we will witness a record-setting three women on the Supreme Court.
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