Vincent Haneman Archives

N.J. Supreme Court: The Kean Court

June 7, 2020 10:05 pmJune 7, 2020 11:02 pm

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...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Cahill Court

June 7, 2020 10:02 pmJune 7, 2020 10:50 pm

After Republican William T. Cahill was elected governor in 1969, the Supreme Court Justices named by Gov. Robert Meyner reached retirement age and New Jersey’s top court began to see some turnover. Cahill made his first Supreme Court appointment in...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Meyner Court

June 7, 2020 10:00 pmJune 7, 2020 10:47 pm

Gov. Robert Meyner had an opportunity to affect a complete makeover of the New Jersey Supreme Court during his two terms as governor, nominating seven justices between 1954 and 1962 on a court that had been established just six years...