Justice Stevens, a reliable liberal / progressive vote on the US Supreme Court is hinting he will retire soon. Maybe as early as this year. While this seems to be minor news, there is a much more important issue.

While it is expected that President Obama will appoint someone to replace Stevens who mirrors his liberal agenda; for a sitting justice to say, 'I will surely do it while he's still president'; shows he is trying to pick his own successor.

This strips away any notion of impartiality on Stevens part in his judicial role. Normally a justice is known to be biased one way or another, but it never spoken about by the justice. Secondly, it smacks of his desire to STACK the court. Not very impartial, if you ask me.