NJ Spotlight News | Clip | Number of NJ Supreme Court vacancies is ‘astonishing’
Associate Justice Barry Albin, New Jersey’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice, has ended his 20-year term having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, leaving New Jersey’s judicial branch with a historic number of vacancies and no indication there’s a plan to fill them. Sixty-two trial court positions are vacant. Just four out of seven justices have been confirmed to the highest court.