Gov. Chris Christie’s intended nomination of veteran GOP Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll to the Superior Court is dead in the water, at least for now, thanks to the ambivalence of the State Bar Association panel that vets judicial nominees.
On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) said no hearing would be scheduled on Carroll’s nomination, in view of a statement two days earlier by the chairman of the Bar’s Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee that there had been insufficient time to consider Carroll’s qualifications.
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