At least on an interim basis, advises the Boston Globe in an editorial urging the legislature to go back to the pre-2004 succession law for Ted Kennedy’s seat. But credit where it’s due: the Globe called the change in the law five years ago a “naked effort to block former governor Romney from appointing a fellow Republican if Senator John Kerry were to win the presidency.” At the time, the newspaper urged legislators to “scuttle this undeniably partisan bill.”
