A Justice of Color — The Legislative Black Caucus is pushing Gov. Chris Christie for a minority appointment to one or both state Supreme Court vacancies soon to be filled: those of justices John Wallace Jr., who left office last year, and Virginia Long, who reaches mandatory retirement age in March.
Christie refused to nominate Wallace, a black Democrat, for tenure. The Democrat-controlled Senate then refused to consider any nominee for the seat until this coming March, when Wallace would have left the bench at age 70. The state’s first and only Hispanic justice, Roberto Rivera-Soto, was replaced by Anne Patterson, who is white.
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