Phil Murphy supports Trenton NJ tradition: senatorial courtesy
Gov. Phil Murphy praise the process at a coronavirus briefing earlier this month. Murphy described the unwritten rule, which allows Senators to block gubernatorial nominees who hail from their home county, as an occasionally annoying but necessary evil. "I think it's been largely a good thing over time,'' Murphy said. Defenders of the courtesy tradition have long argued that it lets individual senators serve as a check on one of the most powerful governors in the nation. But for Statehouse veterans, like Golden, courtesy simply gives senators the leverage to horse trade with the governor's of...
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