A circuit-court judge in Kentucky has ruled that Gov. Ernie Fletcher has the right to reject nominees to public-college boards of regents submitted to him by the state’s Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee, The Courier-Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, reports.
Judge Tom Wingate of the Franklin County Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit brought in August by three rejected candidates for Murray State University’s Board of Regents. The plaintiffs contended that the governor had broken the law by not naming one of them to the board. Mr. Fletcher, a Republican, eventually named Jeff S. Taylor, an appeals-court judge, to the college panel.
