With Gov. Chris Christie’s distressing decision not to reappoint Justice John Wallace Jr. behind us, and the governor and Senate at loggerheads over his successor’s nomination, our Supreme Court may be without its full complement of seven justices for almost two years.
Conventional wisdom holds that Chief Justice Stuart Rabner may fill the vacancy by making a temporary assignment, that Christie is hamstrung until the Senate relents, but that Wallace may continue to decide cases argued before his term expired. The conventional wisdom is all wrong.
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