Franz Ferdinand (not the band)

You might as well have just killed an Austrian archduke, given the Great War that will be unleashed this summer. The most powerful woman in American history is exiting the public stage, and after her, the deluge. Justice O'Connor has been the key swing vote on a wide variety of contentious issues, including abortion. In many a 5-4 case, she was number 5. And thus her replacement will thus wield an enormous amount of clout on the Court.

I've looked ahead to this battle in a post on Myllyrd Fyllmore...