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Another Supreme Court vacancy, another young woman to fill it.
Gov. Murphy will nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, the director of the Division of Civil Rights, to the seat being vacated by Jaynee LaVecchia, I’ve confirmed. David Wildstein reported it first. The big headline here is that she’s a former clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose 88th birthday would have been today.
If she s confirmed, Murphy will have placed two women on the court who will be able to serve for 30 years. That’s a long legacy, though I’m not sure whether it really is one. As Gov. Christie’s picks have shown us, state Supreme Court justices don’t necessarily vote the way their nominator would like them to. But if you’re just looking for another reliably liberal vote, this nominee doesn t seem likely to veer right once on the bench.
That s a wrap! Post-filming, toys from Black Friday movie set find new homes in Worcester
WORCESTER - Not too long ago Rebecca Greene, a set designer working on a movie, transformed a former Babies R Us into a fully stocked toy store, spending a ton of money to make it look authentic.
On Saturday, with the filming finished and a mountain of toys to unload, she and dozens of volunteers gave all those toys away to families in Worcester whose holidays could be made better with the donations.
There were two truckloads of toys when the filming wrapped up and Westerman s Restaurant Equipment and Prop House agreed to store them. They also offered space for volunteers to sort and prepare for a drive-through toy distribution in their parking lot. The prop company held a toy drive to supplement and some of the donated toys came from social service agencies that had received toys in excess of what their clients could use.