Souter Resignation: Root For Our Side!

It's not playing the gender card to say President Obama should tap a woman for his first Supreme Court pick now that we know, with the upcoming retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, he will have a vacancy to fill soon. But if you think the gender deck will be played and you are offended by that notion, I don't want to waste time by trying to argue you out of it.
However one comes to the conclusion that Obama's first Supreme Court needs to be a woman–I'm not fussy on the intellectual journey. I just want to arrive at the destination.

The news David Souter is going to retire confronts Obama with a threshold question as he ponders a replacement: whose seat is it?

And before Obama starts the juggle over ethnic politics–no Hispanic has ever served–he has the gender cut to decide.

And with one woman on the nation's high court–Ruth Bader Ginsburg–I hope it is obvious that the next Supreme Court nominee–Obama's first pick–needs to be a woman.

I don't know the optimal female/ratio mix. But right now one in nine is not enough. Two in nine–before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired in 2006–is not enough.

Having only two women serve on the Supreme Court since John Jay was sworn in as a justice in 1789– is not enough.