A new month starts, with a long list of blog posts to get written. Some will be quick posts, others are fairly complicated. Many are interrelated. I look at the list and try to figure out the appropriate order of blog posts and how much content goes in each blog post.

As I read the news this morning, I find that Supreme Court Justice Souter is retiring and I look at the list of possible replacements. How things have changed. What is most striking to me is that on the list of sixteen possible replacements that the AP published, I’ve met, at least in a cursory manner, three of them.

At the top of the list is Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was one of the judges that ruled on the Doninger case. I read her background before going to hear arguments in the Doninger Case at the Second Circuit. She has an impressive background, and she asked good questions during the hearing, but I disagree with her ruling, at least in that case. It did not seem as if the justices did their homework.

Another possible justice would be Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. I first met Gov. Patrick in 2005 while he was still a candidate. Like Justice Sotomayor, Gov. Patrick has an impressive background. I wrote about how his youth is linked to my youth and to my current interest in board of education issues in a post entitled, The ABC’s of Deval Patrick. I think Gov. Patrick would be a great Supreme Court justice.

Also on the list is Harold Hongju Koh. Dr. Koh is current dean of the Yale University Law School. I’ve been to many events sponsor by Yale University Law School, such as the Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace sponsored by the Information Society Project and the Law and Media Project, both at Yale. Dean Koh has given introductory comments at many of these events, so I’ve met him, but don’t particularly know him.

It looks like May will be another fun month to watch all that is going on.