Gov. Phil Murphy will have the ball on Thursday, and he gets to decide when the 30-day clock to pick a legislative redistricting commission tiebreaker. A 2020 amendment to the State Constitution requires Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to name the...
With the tiebreaker for congressional redistricting set, there will be a lot of hurry up and wait when it comes to knowing the identity of independent member of the panel that will redraw New Jersey’s 40 legislative districts for the...
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner has asked Democrats and Republicans to submit a list of candidates to serve as the eleventh member of the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission by August 10. That puts the selection process for legislative and congressional...
By the time Tom Kean left office in January 1989, the oldest member of the New Jersey Supreme Court was Robert Clifford, who would not reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 until 1994. With no unanticipated vacancies, Gov. Jim...
Brendan Byrne’s Supreme Court makeover — a Chief Justice and three younger than usual Associate Justices — plus William Cahill’s pick of 49-year-old Robert Clifford — meant that Gov. Thomas Kean would get to name only two Supreme Court Justices...
Gov. Brendan Byrne’s first opportunity to nominate a Supreme Court Justice came in early 1975 when Associate Justice Nathan Jacobs turned 70. He asked former Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub to vet candidates for the post. His pick was Sidney Schreiber,...
A group of mostly former New Jersey Supreme Court Justices were named today to a panel to advise Gov. Phil Murphy on judicial appointments. Murphy has picked former Chief Justice James Zazzali to chair the Judicial Advisory Panel, and named...