STATE HOUSE — With one councilor already pledging his support and predicting successful confirmation, Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday stood behind his nominee to the Supreme Judicial Court Judge Kimberly Budd in the face of criticism from one Republican lawmaker who called on the governor to withdraw her nomination.
"Justice Budd is a perfectly and well qualified candidate to sit on the SJC. I think that was demonstrated by her track record, the people who spoke on her behalf and by her testimony," Baker said.
BOSTON — Accompanying a box stuffed with more than 3,000 signatures from registered Massachusetts voters, former Gov. William Weld stopped by Secretary of State William Galvin's office Monday, a necessary step in his quest to make sure he and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson get their names on November's ballot.
