re: #176 lawhawk

He didn’t remove the Supreme Court judge. He felt he was within his rights to not renominate him - and that he could put his own nominees in. There’d been a longstanding policy to maintain the D/R composition of the court, and Christie wanted to change that. That got a lot of pushback.

There’s been an uneasy silence on most of his judicial picks at this point though.

Maddow does make that distinction that I did not. As far as I am concerned, it was a power grab. He may well have been within his rights not to renominate the judge, but it was certainly a breach of the goodwill that is necessary to maintain functioning government.