With only two weeks remaining before the commencement of the next New Jersey court term, we find it an outrageous betrayal of the public interest that the governor has not yet made two of three nominations necessary to fill the vacancies on the New Jersey Supreme Court, and his nominee for one of the vacancies has not yet had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The president of the New Jersey State Bar Association has recently and properly called the situation "historic" and "catastrophic." As she asked, "Can you imagine any profession operating with a forty-three percent vacancy?"