Justice Long wins Senate confirmation for New Jersey Supreme Court

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Justice Virginia Long was confirmed by the Senate yesterday for reappointment to the New Jersey Supreme Court until she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2012.

Long, a usually liberal justice who consistently votes against the death penalty, was confirmed by a vote of 33-5 following a brief debate.

[...skip down a few paragraphs...] Only Cardinale spoke against Long’s reappointment, but Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) issued a statement Only Cardinale spoke against Long’s reappointment, but Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) issued a statement explaining his vote against her: “This court has routinely tortured and twisted the statutory enactments of the Legislative Branch,” Kyrillos said. It did so, he said, to substitute Frank Lautenberg for the embattled Robert Torricelli as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002, to halt a bear hunt in 2004 and to force the appropriation of billions of dollars for the state’s poorest schools.

So, Kyrillos is too cowardly to say this in public? Wimp!

But really, Kyrillos... of the top things that you choose to list about her the fact that she halted a bear hunt?

A BEAR HUNT?

Where is Stephen Cobert when you need him!

But the best part is (and you have to listen to the transcript of this) when KKKardinale accused her from “legislating from the bench” she replied that if Cardinale doesn’t like what the court does, maybe he should pass clear, clean, laws that don’t require so much interpretation.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Great come back!