Following this post about Justice Fernandez-Vina’s retirement earlier today, Chief Justice Rabner this afternoon issued the following statement, available here: “Under the State Constitution and the rules of the Court, the Chief Justice has discretion to assign the Appellate Division judge who is senior in length of service to serve temporarily in the Supreme Court. See N.J. Const. art. VI, § 2, ¶ 1; R. 2:13-2(a). Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution, Governors have abided by the tradition that no more than four members of the Supreme Court can be affiliated with a single...