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U.S. Supreme Court upholds late-arriving VBMS

June 29, 2026 11:20 am

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday preserved late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots for New Jersey and other states, rejecting a Republican challenge that could have invalidated the state’s practice of counting ballots that arrive after Election Day if they were mailed on...

How New Jersey’s senators have voted on U.S Supreme Court nominations

February 25, 2022 1:39 pm

New Jersey’s two United States Senators, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, may get a chance to vote on the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This will be the seventh top court...

Two New Jersey professors tapped for Biden’s Supreme Court reform commission

April 9, 2021 12:17 pm

Two New Jersey professors will join a panel of law experts tapped by President Joe Biden to weigh reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court, the White House announced Friday. Keith Whittington, Princeton University’s William Nelson Cromwell professor of politics, and...

Menendez scorches Senate GOP on vote to advance Barrett top court nomination

October 26, 2020 9:02 amOctober 27, 2020 1:45 pm

In a passionate speech on the floor of the United States Senate on Sunday night, New Jersey’s Bob Menendez implored Republicans not to cut off debate on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as an Associate Justice of the U.S....

In confirmation fight, Booker wants all eyes on health care

October 12, 2020 4:27 pm

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-Newark) is keeping focus on the Affordable Care Act as he and other Democrats in Congress’s upper chamber enter a confirmation fight for late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat that they will likely lose....

Menendez, Booker have little hope of blocking Supreme Court nominee

September 28, 2020 3:49 pm

New Jersey’s U.S. senators don’t have much hope they’ll stop Republicans from appointing a new Supreme Court justice, so they’re pointing incensed voters toward the ballot box. “We’re going to use every procedural tactic we can to try to stop...

Here’s how N.J. Senators voted on some of Trump’s Supreme Court short list

September 20, 2020 7:19 pmSeptember 20, 2020 11:52 pm

President Donald Trump says he will nominate a woman to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat on the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leaving two conservative circuit court judges as the front-runners for the lifetime appointment. Barbara Lagoa, a former Florida...