SOMETHING FAMILIAR
On the one hand, Governor Corzine's office leaked the nomination of Rabner’s appointment, refused to comment on the leak, and more than several days later made the formal announcement at a press conference. THAT'S OK.
On the other hand, Newsday reports: I have no comment,’ Gill said repeatedly as she arrived at a Senate Commerce Committee meeting in the State House Annex. ... When approached by reporters as she took her seat to chair the hearing, Gill had legislative security staffers keep reporters away." THAT’S NOT OK?
The only difference seems to be the paparazzi couldn’t stalk the Governor.
Ya know, if the press really cared about the nomination they would actually investigate and report on the criteria for being a chief justice and how or how not AG Rabner fills those criteria. Small things even. Like a review of published and unpublished opinions. Oh, Rabner has never been a judge so there are no opinions. Well, how about scholarly articles then. Oh, none of those either. Well how about his feelings concerning the Ethics Advisory Panel's opinion from the secret Corzine-Katz hearing using secret depositions about secret emails.... He did go to Yale Law School. Not Yale?
SOMETHING PECULIAR
A Home News Tribune report concerning U.S. Attorney Christies’ rant is just mindboggling. The best is the statement "Christie said New Jersey has no better person for the high court." Didn't know the U.S. Attorney had a Supreme Court selection process, committee or candidate list. Maybe he does know. Warrantless searches – billions of phone conversations and emails intercepted - monsterous web crawlers - hey, ya never know.
Second best is "Christie had also likened Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman John Adler, D-Camden, to 'a third-rank bureaucrat' because he had said he would not schedule a hearing for Rabner without the OK from Gill."
Go Get’em; hit them with the nonpartisan "nuclear option". P.S. Senator Adler went to Harvard too.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
June 14, 2007 Star-Ledger article states:" Gill has refused to say why she is opposed to Rabner's nomination, although her colleagues said she feels that Corzine did not pay enough deference to the Senators by choosing Rabner without first consulting his home-county delegation.
June 13, 2007 Star-Ledger article states "Sen. Nia Gill (D-Essex), using a traditional courtesy extended to senators representing the home county of nominees, has not signed off on Rabner's nomination to lead the New Jersey Supreme Court and has raised questions about his inexperience in civil law and the rush to confirm him, the sources said yesterday."
Those are distinctions with a difference. Remember?
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