Slide Show: Who Will Be Obama’s Next Supreme Court Nominee?
Justice John Paul Stevens, nearing 90, confirmed recently that he will retire from the Supreme Court this summer. He “concluded that it would be in the best interests of the Court to have my successor appointed and confirmed well in advance of the commencement of the Court’s next term,” he told the New York Times. Stevens’s retirement will give President Obama his second opportunity to name a Supreme Court justice, but will not shift the ideological balance on the court. The following possible nominees are some of The Nation‘s top choices for a replacement.

John Echohawk, a legendary lawyer who has run the Native American Rights Fund for more than thirty years, would bring a perspective to the court that has been overlooked for 230 years.