TRENTON — Could it be Judge Numbnuts?

State Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) — whom Gov. Chris Christie famously labeled "numbnuts" during a spat — is apparently in good enough graces with the governor to be considered a potential nominee for a judgeship, according to a report in the Princeton Packet.

The report, citing an anonymous highly ranked Democrat, said that despite their differences Christie considers Gusciora a “good guy” and may nominate him to a Superior Court judgeship.

Gusciora in a phone interview with NJ Advance Media said he’s heard his name is on a list of recommended candidates Democrats submitted to the governor to fill vacancies on the court, but that he has no idea how likely it is to happen.

“My name is floated around because there’s four vacancies on the Superior Court. So they must be scraping the bottom of the barrel. That’s the nut of it. That’s the numbnuts of the thing,” Gusciora said, adding that he would be “honored” to don the robe.

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Gusciora is one of the Legislature’s most liberal members, and made history by becoming New Jersey’s first openly gay lawmaker. But he’s also had limited influence in the Assembly due in part to his lack of a relationship with the state’s major Democratic power brokers.

If Christie does tap Gusciora for a judgeship, the nomination would still need to be approved by the state Senate.

“ It just leaked out that my name was tossed about. You’ll have to talk to the county executive, county chairs and the senators. But ultimately it’s the senators’ decision because of advice and consent,” Gusciora said.

Christie called Gusciora “numbnuts” after the assemblyman sharply criticized him for saying that civil rights activists in the 1950s and 60s "would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets of the South.”

Gusciora never took the insult personally, referring to it as a “term of endearment.”

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