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This morning, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens sent a letter to President Obama informing him that he will retire when the Court recesses this summer. 

RNC Chairman Michael Steele issued a statement thanking Justice Stevens for his service and calling on President Obama to use this opportunity to change course from the kind of out-of-the-mainstream judicial activists he has been appointing to the lower courts and instead choose a well-qualified judge who will rule based on the law, and not legislate from the bench to advance a personal ideological agenda. 

As our research briefing this afternoon notes, in poll after poll, the American people have shown clearly that is the kind of judge they would like to see on the Court. Will President Obama listen, or will he nominate another liberal activist like UC Berkley Professor Goodwin Liu?