In case you missed them, here are some New Jersey Globe stories from the Independence Day holiday weekend:
* A New Jersey judge faces disciplinary charges for allegedly getting drunk at a holiday party for judges last December and then inappropriately touching three female court staffers and making sexually suggesting remarks. He’s also accused of engaging with adult entertainment figures on social media and inappropriately commenting on their photos.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/n-j-judge-accused-of-getting-drunk-at-holiday-party-touching-court-employees-and-embraced-an-adult-film-actress-at-erotica-convention/
* Lawyers for U.S. Senator Bob Menendez rested their case on Wednesday, without the senator taking the stand. Leaving the courthouse, Menendez said, “the government has failed to prove every aspect of its case.”
https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/senator-on-trial-day-twenty-eight/
* The Human Fundraising Machine, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, has over $19.4 million cash-on-hand after his largest fundraising quarter ever.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/gottheimer-has-a-pythonic-19-4-million-banked-after-his-strongest-fundraising-quarter-ever/
* LaMonica McIver, the frontrunner for the late Donald Payne’s congressional seat in NJ-10, has raised almost $91,000. That’s more than any other candidate but Darryl Godfrey, whose early fundraising success appears to have stalled.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/lamonica-mciver-raises-nearly-91k-for-special-democratic-primary/
* A Republican super PAC, United 2024, has an internal poll showing the presidential and U.S. Senate races in New Jersey to be statistical dead heats.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/gop-super-pac-poll-in-n-j-shows-biden-vs-trump-kim-vs-bashaw-statistically-tied/
* Hudson County Executive/Democratic County Chairman Craig Guy has endorsed Jerry Walker, a Hudson County Commissioner, for Donald Payne’s congressional seat.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/craig-guy-endorses-jerry-walker-for-congress/
* Michael Arnone, a Monmouth County Republican who served in the State Assembly from 1989 to 2004, died last week at age 91.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/mike-arnone-seven-term-assemblyman-dies-at-91/
* There’s another possible challenge to New Jersey’s Sore Loser Law in Dover, where a councilwoman sought party support at the local Democratic convention, and then after losing, filed as an independent.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/another-possible-challenge-of-n-j-sore-loser-law-in-dover/