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Davenport building out her team, names ex-Supreme Court Law Clerk Eliza Lehner as chief counsel

February 4, 2026 12:27 pmFebruary 4, 2026 3:49 pm

Eliza Lehner, who clerked for two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, has been named chief counsel to Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport as the state’s top law enforcement official continues to assemble her leadership team in Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s new administration....

U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that N.J. can depart Waterfront Commission

April 18, 2023 11:10 amApril 18, 2023 9:14 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision this morning allowing New Jersey to unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, ruling against New York’s efforts to force New Jersey to remain in the bistate commission. The...

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...

Murphy won’t comment on Biden sexual assault allegation

May 8, 2020 2:50 pmMay 8, 2020 3:04 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to comment on a sexual assault allegation leveled against former Vice President Joe Biden by a former aide. “I’ve got literally no insight or no comment on questions two and three,” Murphy said when asked if...

Piper Perabo won’t run for public office

December 10, 2019 12:46 pmDecember 10, 2019 2:00 pm

Golden Globe nominated actor Piper Perabo does not intend to run for public office. “Not in my future that I know of, no,” she said when asked if she planned to mount a bid for the State Senate against incumbent...

Piper Perabo headed to Trenton to push for Toms River school funding

December 8, 2019 4:58 pmDecember 9, 2019 2:28 pm

Actor Piper Perabo will be at the Statehouse on Tuesday to protest funding cuts to the Toms River school district by Gov. Phil Murphy. “I’m joining students and community from the New Jersey public school district I went to, to...