Pennsylvania: Rendell’s judicial nominees rejected in partisan showdown
The AP reports on the Philly.com:
Four vacancies on Pennsylvania’s appellate courts, including one on the Supreme Court, will remain unfilled for now.
In a near party-line vote, the Republican-controlled state Senate on Wednesday rejected four men nominated by Gov. Ed Rendell to temporarily fill the openings.
Republican senators say Rendell stepped over the established practice of taking the Senate’s advice on whom to nominate.