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No resignation announcements, at least not yet, according to ScotusBlog at 10 AM. (UPDATE: Ditto at 1:30 PM.)

As far as the Ten Commandments are concerned, the Court seems to have split the difference, striking them down in the Kentucky case, but allowing them in the Texas case. For the Kentucky case, you can access the dissent here, and the Court's opinion here, and the concurring opinion here.

UPDATE ON COMMANDMENTS: Regarding the Court's opinion in the Kentucky case, John Podhoretz asks, "Has anybody ever advanced this radical opinion -- that the five justices in question may be intelligent and thoughtful people individually, but that together they form one blithering idiot?" Regarding the Court's opinion in the Texas case, the Court was so splintered, that when C.J. Rehnquist announced all of the opinions, he joked that he didn't know there were so many justices on the Court. The lineup of justices was the same in both cases, except that Justice Breyer flipped, for the reasons described by Ed Whelan.

UPDATE #2: Scrappleface suggests a disclaimer on courtroom displays of the Ten Commandments: "Citizens may observe and obey these commandments at their own risk." HT: How Appealing.