First of all, people need to stop saying ‘irregardless.’ Sestak did that during his debate with Specter and it made me want to vote for Arlen. Now I see New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney using it in a different context. Just stop it. Use ‘irrespective’ or ‘without regard for.’
More substantively, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has fired the only African-American on the state’s Supreme Court.
This is the first time since the state Constitution went into effect in 1947 that a New Jersey governor has chosen not to reappoint a justice who has completed an initial seven-year term.
Dude’s not even a far lefty.
The 68-year-old Wallace had been known as a centrist.
In a unanimous decision in 2006 that gay couples must receive treatment equal to that of married heterosexual couples, Wallace was one of four judges who stopped short of saying that gay couples had to have the right to marry to attain that equality.
But race has nothing to do with it.
Irrespective of whatever Gov. Cristie is trying to accomplish, he’s started a war.
Senate President Steve Sweeney, a South Jersey Democrat like Wallace, said he would not put Christie’s nominee up for a vote….
…Sweeney described Wallace as “one of the classiest people I’ve ever met,” and said he does not deserve “to go down in history as the first justice ever not to be reappointed.”
“I can’t in good conscious irregardless of the individual put that person up for a vote,” Sweeney said. “If we move his nominee, we’re saying no one’s going to stand up for an independent court.”
So, like I said, you get sick of having some Goldman Sachs-Democrat fucking up your state and want to toss the jackass out? Sorry, not an option.
