Gov. Phil Murphy plans to nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, a North Jersey native and former law clerk for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to the state s highest court later this year.
A registered Democrat, Wainer Apter would tilt the ideology of the seven-member Supreme Court, since LaVecchia is its lone unaffiliated voter.
At a ceremony at Rutgers University s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, on what would have been the justice s 88th birthday, Wainer Apter said she shares the driving principles of her judicial mentors, including Ginsburg: upholding the law and the equality and dignity of all people. I have never focused only on laws or systems. Instead, I have always centered the individual lives that laws and systems are meant to serve but can so often harm, Wainer Apter said.
Trenton Bureau
Gov. Phil Murphy plans to nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, a North Jersey native and former law clerk for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to the state s highest court later this year.
A registered Democrat, Wainer Apter would tilt the ideology of the seven-member Supreme Court, since LaVecchia is its lone unaffiliated voter.
At a ceremony at Rutgers University s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, on what would have been the justice s 88th birthday, Wainer Apter said she shares the driving principles of her judicial mentors, including Ginsburg: upholding the law and the equality and dignity of all people. I have never focused only on laws or systems. Instead, I have always centered the individual lives that laws and systems are meant to serve but can so often harm, Wainer Apter said.