Wednesday’s announcement of a deal that will keep Chief Justice Stuart Rabner on the New Jersey Supreme Court was hailed as an historic compromise by the New Jersey legal community, who greeted the news with relief and the sense of a crisis averted.
But concerns linger about what will happen with future vacancies on the state’s highest court and the fate of the more than 180 lower court state judges who lack tenure and whose judicial careers are less likely to be the focus of political deal-making.
