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Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 20, 2025 12:09 amJanuary 20, 2025 1:18 am

James H. Coleman, J. (1933-2024), the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Virginia, was the first Black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department of...

Durr criticizes Whitman on Harris endorsement

August 8, 2024 8:15 pm

Former State Sen. Edward R. Durr (R-Logan), a conservative trucker and gubernatorial candidate, scolded former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman for helping start a “Republicans for Harris” group earlier this week. Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey from 1994...

Whitman endorses Harris for president

August 4, 2024 8:28 pmAugust 4, 2024 8:29 pm

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman was one of 24 Republican elected officials to endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president on Sunday. “I was a proud Republican, but Donald Trump is unfit to lead our nation. We saw during...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 19, 2024 12:00 amFebruary 18, 2024 11:08 pm

In 2020, Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the...

Phil Murphy’s job approvals remain steady, new FDU poll shows

February 6, 2024 6:00 amFebruary 6, 2024 11:21 am

Gov. Phil Murphy has stable job approval ratings of 46%-40%, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released this morning. Among Democrats – the constituency that matters most to a term-limited governor whose wife is running for the U.S. Senate...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 15, 2024 12:06 amAugust 5, 2024 9:17 am

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Virginia, was the first Black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department of...

Moderate Party asks N.J. Supreme Court to hear fusion voting case directly

July 20, 2023 3:19 pm

The Moderate Party, a fledgling third party organization, today asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear its challenge to the state’s fusion voting laws, the latest step in the party’s yearlong effort to bring fusion voting to New Jersey....