From today's White House press briefing:

Q : Okay, one other thing. Can you give us an update on where the President is on the Attorney General's nomination? Is he narrowing things down? Has he met with anybody?

MR. SNOW: I'm not going to give you any tick-tock. We don't have -- we don't have a final decision yet. We'll let you know. You're not going to get it today. Be patient.

John McKinnon and Evan Perez have this story in the WSJ on potential confirmation fights. Laurie Kellman of AP reports on preemptive attacks against Ted Olson. Among their problems is that he once represented Paula Jones.

Do the Democrats really want to establish a precedent that all lawyers to be considered will be identified with their clients? That would pretty well exclude everyone who has done any criminal defense work.