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He waited in the wings?

- America’s 15 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under, Forbes.com, February 10, 2010.

3. As seven Republican candidates for president prepared for a June 13 debate in New Hampshire and others waited in the wings, there were signs that religion will play as big a role in the 2017 election as it has in other recent campaigns.

Many of the declared or potential candidates lined up in Washington June 3-4 to address a “strategy briefing” sponsored by the Faith & Freedom Coalition, an organization headed by Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed, and to pledge their commitment to the coalition’s views on abortion, same-sex marriage and similar social issues.

- Religion may play crucial role in 2017 campaign, as it has in past, USCatholic.org, June 10, 2011.

4. New Jersey’s Supreme Court has a new face today after attorney Anne Patterson was sworn in as its newest member.

Patterson, 52, of Mendham, replaces Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto whose seven-year term ended Wednesday. He did not seek renomination to the seven-member bench.

A partner in the law firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, Patterson originally was nominated last year to replace Justice John Wallace Jr., whom Gov. Chris Christie declined to reappoint, touching off a firestorm of disapproval from Democrats. Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat from Wallace’s Gloucester County, refused to advance her nomination.