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N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

January 17, 2022 12:02 amFebruary 9, 2022 4:42 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

November 15, 2021 12:01 amNovember 15, 2021 10:34 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Meyner Court

June 7, 2020 10:00 pmJune 7, 2020 10:47 pm

Gov. Robert Meyner had an opportunity to affect a complete makeover of the New Jersey Supreme Court during his two terms as governor, nominating seven justices between 1954 and 1962 on a court that had been established just six years...

N.J. Supreme Court: Alfred Driscoll’s first seven picks

June 7, 2020 9:58 pmJune 7, 2020 10:44 pm

Gov. Alfred Driscoll picked the first seven members of the New Jersey Supreme Court in late 1947, months after voters approved a new State Constitution that completely revamped an antiquated and obsolete judiciary. Since then, every governor but Richard Hughes,...

Thomas Edison’s daughter couldn’t beat the line in congressional primary

August 4, 2019 7:00 pmAugust 5, 2019 9:56 am

In case you missed it: a 1938 congressional primary where Thomas Edison’s daughter couldn’t win off the line against the organization choice, a municipal court judge from East Orange. Two years earlier, in President Franklin Roosevelt’s re-election year, 33-year-old Edward...