I would be curious to know how much packing has gone on so far in the offices of Justice David Souter, as the Supreme Court term comes to an end over the next week or two.
The High Court has ten cases left to decide for this term, which usually ends around the last few days of June.
After that gets wrapped up, confirmation hearings begin on July 13 (three weeks from today) for President Obama's choice to succeed Souter, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the ten rulings still to be made by the Court pertains to a case that was heard by Sotomayor, the firefighter promotion case from New Haven, Connecticut that is going to get a close look from both the legal and political worlds.
Sotomayor joined an unusual, one paragraph unsigned opinion from a three judge panel on the Second Circuit, which upheld a lower court decision that the firefighters could not sue the city of New Haven over their move to ditch a promotion exam because of the lack of success by minority candidates.
Other decisions we are waiting on include a case about the constitutionality of school system officials strip-searching a high school student suspected of having giving other girls ibuprofen at school.
That decision is certain to get a lot of attention as well, and could be saved for a final decision day next week.
Also still on the docket, cases on forensic evidence in trials, a campaign finance case involving a movie about Hillary Clinton, voting rights and more.
Meanwhile, as for Judge Sotomayor, she continues her meetings this week with Senators.
You might have missed the news over the weekend as Sotomayor resigned from an all women's group called the Belizean Grove that she had joined over a year ago.
Republicans had been making a lot of murmurings about that, arguing that if a male court nominee belonged to an all men's club, there would be a big outcry from women's groups.
While Sotomayor argued in a letter to Senators that the club didn't exlude anyone based on their gender, she quit the club in order to avoid questions that might "distract anyone from my qualifications and record."
We'll see if Sotomayor gets in the news today about the Connecticut firefighter case or not, as we countdown to the end of the Court's term.
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