U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist died this evening at his home. The question now becomes: who will become the next chief justice? Aside from the John Roberts confirmation hearing, we're looking at two more confirmation hearings: one for the new chief justice (who will probably be an existing justice) and one for the new associate justice. Bush will probably nominate someone who is more conservative than John Roberts, to maintain some sort of balance.

This is entry number 300! Woo!

In other news, this blog may look funny for a little while. My upgrade of Movable Type to version 3.2 was a colossal failure, forcing me to do a clean install of MT 3.1.