Now that former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin’s resignation from that court has become official, Governor Tom Corbett has 90 days in which to nominate a successor. Although the governor’s attention may currently be focused mainly on budgetary and other matters, I remain confident that Corbett will nominate someone to Pennsylvania’s highest court before time runs out.
The opportunity to shape the path of Pennsylvania’s highest court at this time is both so rare and so potentially important that it is inconceivable that the governor would allow it merely to slip away unexercised. Plus, Corbett is on record as a supporter of so-called appellate judicial "merit selection," and this opportunity to name a replacement justice is as close as Pennsylvania law currently offers to that manner of judicial selection.
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