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Murphy still has no N.J. Supreme Court news on first day of judicial session

September 1, 2022 2:56 pmSeptember 7, 2022 12:39 am

It’s December 2023. President Joe Biden isn’t running for re-election, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is one of 26 Democrats running to succeed him. On a debate stage in South Carolina, moderator Steve Kornacki tees up the question Murphy’s...

Cooperating witness in state corruption probe asks appellate judges to postpone civil lawsuit

June 22, 2022 12:59 pmJune 22, 2022 2:29 pm

Matt O’Donnell, the disgraced former tax appeal attorney who is the state’s cooperating witness in a local corruption sting operation, is trying to delay a lawsuit by the township of Holmdel, who says he overbilled them for legal services. O’Donnell...

Appellate court reverses dismissal of O’Donnell indictment

April 4, 2022 10:48 amApril 4, 2022 3:08 pm

A state appellate court has reversed the dismissal of an indictment against a former Hudson County lawmaker, saying that it is illegal to bribe a candidate even if they hold no public office at the time of the bribe. “To...

Rabner announces he won’t fill Fernandez-Vina vacancy on Supreme Court

February 16, 2022 12:40 pm

New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said today that he will not fill the vacancy left by Justice Faustino Fernandez-Vina, leaving the court with a complement of only six members until the State Senate confirms nominees to fill...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

Thomas Gagliano, former Senate minority leader, dies at 87

April 14, 2019 12:09 pmApril 15, 2019 12:13 pm

Former New Jersey Senate Minority Leader S. Thomas Gagliano, a popular and respected legislator who served as executive director of New Jersey Transit, died on Saturday night. He was 87. A fixture in Monmouth County politics for seven decades, Gagliano...