Steve Rothman, Author at New Jersey Globe

Rothman: Why I’m Cautiously Optimistic for America

November 12, 2021 5:15 amNovember 11, 2021 6:40 pm

OPINION The general mood in America is one of near exhaustion and some concern. Since the Spring of 2020, many have been stressed to the max: tens of millions who feared or suffered the loss of their jobs or businesses;...

Opinion: A Dangerous, Odd and Unconstitutional Texas Law

September 7, 2021 7:00 amSeptember 5, 2021 9:53 pm

OPINON “It is legal because I wish it.” Louis XIV. The new Texas anti-abortion law is unconstitutional as its purpose and effect is to hinder, if not to entirely prevent, the free exercise of a Texas woman’s right to an...

Opinion: The Taliban don’t completely control Afghanistan and may never

August 18, 2021 10:47 pm

OPINION People who think they know what will happen in Afghanistan need to hold off on their predictions. The Taliban don’t have complete control over Afghanistan yet. And that country’s future is far from clear. No Unified Command of Afghanistan;...

Opinion: The GOP’s efforts to nullify elections are a threat to American democracy

June 10, 2021 9:44 amJune 10, 2021 7:33 pm

OPINION Would we still regard America as the land of liberty and justice if the United States was to become a country where the person who lost the presidential election could be installed as our President anyway? The answer for...

Opinion: 43 Senate Republicans failed to protect our American Democracy

February 14, 2021 8:25 pmFebruary 15, 2021 1:04 pm

OPINION Almost none of the 43 Republican Senators who voted to acquit President Trump defended his incitement behavior leading up to and occurring on January 6th, including his hours’ long failure to tell his supporters to stop their violent attack...

9/11 and 1/6: America Resilient

January 7, 2021 4:56 pmJanuary 7, 2021 6:11 pm

OPINION Yesterday brought me to deep anger and tears of profound sadness as I witnessed, along with all Americans and the entire world, America’s “Temple of Democracy” invaded and defiled by criminally-incited domestic terrorists. First and foremost, I was worried...

Rothman says he never considered challenge to Garrett

August 6, 2019 3:15 pmAugust 7, 2019 11:39 am

OPINION I recently read an article in New Jersey Globe that said, incorrectly, that when the New Jersey Republican plan for Congressional Redistricting was enacted and presented as a fait accompli to the New Jersey Congressional Delegation in December 2011,...