The President's statement on Attorney General Gonzales's resignation is here.

Coverage is available here from Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal and here from Matt Apuzzo of AP. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff is mentioned as a possible successor. Howard Schneider has this story in the WashPost. Richard Schmitt has this story in the LATimes. AP also has this set of mostly predictable quotes.

One beneficial side-effect is that the attempts of the anti-death-penalty crowd to make implementation of the AEDPA fact track reforms all about Mr. Gonzales personally have just been vaporized.

Update: Regarding the Chertoff speculation, I received a question by email on what Judge Chertoff's record on capital cases was on the Third Circuit. Very sparse, apparently. On a quick check, I found no opinions. He is listed as a member of the court that denied rehearing en banc in the Rompilla case, but that doesn't tell us much. The Third Circuit has a relatively small capital docket, compared to some of the others, because few cases make through state review in Pennsylvania, none make it through in New Jersey, and Delaware just doesn't have that many cases.