i swore to myself i would never say 'roundup'

Prof. Peter Rubin at ACS blog on why we should care

Slate on potential nominees

Randy Barnett at Volokh tries to add some nuance to the Slate discussion

People for the American Way on what's at stake

TalkLeft endorses Ed Prado, has Move-On PAC ad, Senator Reid statement, Senator Feingold statement

SCOTUSblog on how this affects the allegedly impending Rehquist retirement

Supreme Court Nomination blog lists some of SOC's most important swing votes

David Sirota writing at HuffPost about corporate America's boner for the new opening (hehe) and on his own blog about a possible Rove strategy

Bench Memos has too much good stuff to choose, probably the best continuing coverage of this thing so far

And here's a conservative blog on all of this, I can't tell if their spelling of SOC's name as "O'Conner" is stupidity or nastiness, but conservatives sure are good at wordplay.

MSNBC on the process of nomination, though most of you will be familiar with the white smoke/black smoke method from the recent papal appointment