For those of you who are now going to enter betting pools on who the nominee to replace him will be, keep in mind that according to this New York Times story, this was the short-list of candidates who were considered for the Court last year:
In the end, the White House considered nine candidates. In addition to Judges Sotomayor and Wood, officials said they were Solicitor General Elena Kagan; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan; Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court; Justice Carlos R. Moreno of the California Supreme Court; Judge Merrick B. Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and Judge Ruben Castillo of Federal District Court in Illinois.Posted by armand at April 9, 2010 12:49 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Law and the Courts