Gurbir Grewal Archives - New Jersey Globe

Grewal issues election guidance for law enforcement

October 16, 2020 2:53 pm

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued guidance on the role of law enforcement personnel in the upcoming election, seeking to avoid the types of voter intimidation and suppression carried out by off-duty police in the state’s 1981 gubernatorial election. The guidance...

Appellate panel clears Grewal police discipline directive

October 16, 2020 11:33 amOctober 16, 2020 1:30 pm

A three-judge appellate panel on Friday upheld Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s directive ordering police departments to release information about major disciplinary incidents against police officers over the last 20 years. “Today’s decision marks a new day for police transparency and...

Ali: Voters receiving double ballots, dead voters’ ballots

September 29, 2020 3:59 pmSeptember 29, 2020 4:37 pm

Morris County Republican Chairwoman Laura Ali called on Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to investigate ballot irregularities there, charging that voter rolls weren’t properly cleared before ballots went into the mail. “People are getting ballots left and right from people that...

No one taking responsibility for mandatory minimums amendment

September 22, 2020 2:17 pm

No one is taking responsibility for a quietly made amendment adding official misconduct to a list of offenses that will have their mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines excised under a bill working its way through the legislature. The bill, originally penned...

Jewish GOP candidate calls Pelosi mailer anti-Semitic ‘dog whistle’

September 16, 2020 12:01 amSeptember 16, 2020 2:23 pm

Direct mail coming from Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC appears to accentuate but not modify the size of a Jewish Republican congressional candidate’s nose and depicts the candidate with loads of hundred dollar bills. One of the three mailers show...

New Jersey joining suit over loosened greenhouse gas restrictions

September 14, 2020 11:45 am

New Jersey will join a coalition of other states in a bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency from rolling back standards for methane and other hazardous emissions, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Monday. “EPA’s latest rollbacks will allow more...

Murphy appears to side with Oliver against defunding police

September 11, 2020 4:06 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy appeared to agree with Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver’s promise not to redirect funds going to police departments to other community services Friday. “The way I’ve thought about it in the past is not just in isolation because...