On Supreme Court, timing is everything

June 02nd, 2008 | Category: Florida Politics Blog

Gov. Charlie Crist not only has four openings on the Florida Supreme Court to fill, but he’ll soon replace three of former Gov. Jeb Bush’s appointees on the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission with his own. The picks will further solidify Crist’s grip on the process of replacing justices Raoul Cantero,

Kenneth Bell, Harry Lee Anstead and Charles Wells by the next year. that is why Crist has not yet formally accepted the Cantero and Bell resignations, as former St. Petersburg Times associate editor Martin Dyckman explains in an op-ed piece.