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ready to go. justice john paul stucevens wil be 90 in 11 days, but to the end, he led the fight. a senior white house aide said the president will name a replacement by the end of may, and it's the kind of big decision that can shape history. so, we begin our coverage with jake tapper at the white house tonight. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, a senior whi house official items abc news that president obama knew that this retime was coming, but they didn't know just how short that order would be. now the white house is preparing for a supreme court vacancy, and a likely ...

will his comeback put the controversy to rest. and we're live in st. petersburg as we take you inside the new russia. a russian renaissance. hello from st. petersburg. we're here at the constantine palace. it was first built more than 300 years ago, by the czar peter the great. i don't know how much of the grounds you can see around me. the magnificent grounds. he wanted this to be the russian version of versailles of the frempbl. we saw ice fall into the river there. it was a sanatorium for the mentally ill. but a few years ago, completely refurbished into a business center and ...

good evening. former president gerald ford once said it would be fine with him if his entire presidency was judged only by the man he put on the supreme court. president ford had just one chance to name one justice and he chose john paul stevens of chicago. a recent poll showed only about 1% of americans knew his name, but his rulings as a justice affected every american in this country. today justice john paul stevens, the oldest member of the court, the most senior justice, the leading liberal announced he's leaving the bench. president obama now gets to appoint his second justice,...

showing their stuff. no more of this pretending to be grand old party types, they're they're talking like real confederates. rick perry talking about secession. mcdonnell singing the praises of the confederacy itself, and the other day a republican congressman said we ought to dump general grant on the bill and replace him with someone closer to heart, ronald reagan. the guy running for florida governor is leading the fight against a new health care bill as, quote, an invasion of the state's sovereignty. do we really think this crowd wants abraham lincoln as its hero? this whole part...

happen? >> soon. this lawsuit is going to take a while so we don't have to do it immediately. we'll be making decisions and take being -- and taking acts in the next week or two. she unfortunately, decided not to sue on behalf of the state of minnesota. she is going to side with the president on this. i'm going to take the other side. at least she gave me the authority and i needed that unminnesota law to initiate my own action. >> greta: it is interesting. she laid out the legal reasoning for why she wasn't going to join. if you carefully read she does sort of slap the other side. s...