Andrew J. McDonald, the former co-chair of the legislative Judiciary Committee, last week won the panel’s overwhelming but not unanimous approval to become a state Supreme Court justice.
The lawyer-dominated committee voted 40-2 to send the Democrat’s nomination to the full General Assembly. In recent years, the committee members, often led by McDonald, had regularly peppered judicial nominees with probing questions. But this time around, the questioning of McDonald, who for the past two years has been chief counsel to the governor’s office, was almost cursory.
