Musical Article III Chairs

I've managed to keep quiet about the vacancy at One First Street all this time, but with the impending announcement of the President's nominee, I just can't keep silent anymore. I must express my joy and elation that Justice Breyer will no longer be sitting on the far left of the Chief. With the exception of Justice Stevens (and the Chief of course, who is by all measures the center of the Universe) every other Justice will now shift to the opposite side and move one chair closer to the Chief...except for my favorite verbose Justice, SGB. He will only shift, but not move closer.

In other very important news, the seating will feature a boys and girls side. The girls will now occupy the left spectrum from the Chief. Hopefully that is an sign of the jurisprudence to come.

Update: While my hopes of an all girls section at One First Street were dashed by the dashing Judge Roberts, I think this is definitely not the time to pick a fight. Putting abortion aside, Roberts is about the type of nominee you'd expect...in other words, at least he's not Luttig. The only way to oppose the nomination would based on personal ideology, and that would backfire in a second against the Dems. It's not like at least we have the House or anything. Let Roberts on, worry about defeating Santorum and others in the Senate in a year, concentrate on a foreign/military expeditionary policy that ACTUALLY considers national security, have a domestic agenda that is more than maintaining the status quo, and perhaps turn attention back to Karl Rove. But the broo ha ha over Roberts is just that.