Well, now that fourteen moderates in the Senate managed to resolve the fili-bunker-buster impasse of the last two years, Bush looks like he's gotten his way, at least with conservative ladies. (Conservative office tyrants, though, remain in limbo.) A few weeks ago, Justice Priscilla Owen was appointed to the federal appellate court in Texas and today, SF-based California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown will be packing up her bags and heading east to the DC Court of Appeals.

DCist's newest addition is our latest departure -- so both liberals and conservatives are starting to wonder who the governor's going to appoint to fill Justice Brown's seat on the California Supreme Court. With hot-button topics like, ohhh...., maybe..... GAY MARRIAGE coming up in the next year or so, this one'll be one to watch.