GOP Leaders Oppose Judge Nominees

State senators Joe Scarnati and Dominic Pileggi are telling Governor Rendell that his nominees to fill temporary opening's on the state's appellate courts are not acceptable. In a letter Thursday, the Senate's top two Republicans recommended that Rendell consider withdrawing the four nominees. The GOP leaders were not satisfied with Rendell's picks when he made them in January, and complained that he had not taken their advice on whom to nominate. Scarnati and Pileggi say Rendell's nominations of four white men, including three from Rendell's home city of Philadelphia, are not diverse enough. They also pointed out that one Superior Court nominee, Robert Daniels, recently turned 70, the court's mandatory retirement age.