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NPR reports that Justice David Souter is planning to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term handing Obama his first opportunity to legally shape the future of the country.

Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President Obama, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court’s more liberal bloc over the past two decades.

In addition, Souter was apparently satisfied that neither the court’s oldest member, 89-year-old John Paul Stevens, nor its lone woman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery over the winter, wanted to retire at the end of this term. Not wanting to cause a second vacancy, Souter apparently had waited to learn his colleagues’ plans before deciding his own.

I guess it had to happen Souter or later. Okay, I’m sorry about that but no where as sorry as John Sununu should be for recommending Souter in the first place.

Brace yourselves for the follow-up joke…