justice fernandes is the first supreme court nominee chosen by governor chris christie, who's actuallyeen confirmed by the new jersey senate, in two years. he's the first christie nominee to get through since a huge political fight broke out back in 2010. that's when chris christie, shortly after his became governor, took the unprecedented step of declining to reappoint a sitting judge to the state supreme court, because he did not think the state supreme court was conservative enough. that judge he took off the court also happened to be the only african-american justice on the court at the time. democrats were furious with the new governor christie for kicking justice john wallace off the supreme court, kicking a sitting justice off the supreme court is something that no governor of new jersey had ever done before in the history of that state's constitution. democrats decided to retaliate by refusing to confirm christie nominees to that supreme court, one after another after another. it has been a very, very bitter fight. look at the headline here. war between governor christie and se