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With second vacancy looming on NJ Supreme Court, NJSBA signals 'full-boil crisis'

The New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) called for Gov. Phil Murphy to personally intervene to address the climbing number of judicial vacancies in a letter from NJSBA President Domenick Carmagnola last week. The impending vacancy of Justice Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina underscores the urgency for judicial vacancies to be filled, said the Carmagnola.

"Judicial vacancies are an endemic issue always simmering in New Jersey and throughout its legal system," Carmagnola wrote. "Yet too often in recent history—such as in this moment—the number of vacancies has been allowed to grow into a full-boil crisis."