She must appoint a chief justice
President Arroyo should appoint the next chief justice if only to provoke the Supreme Court into deciding on the matter.
Sonia Sotomayor, left, President Obama's choice to replace retiring Justice David Souter, takes the oath from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice and only the third woman in the court's 220-year history, in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009.