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Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 16, 2023 12:06 amJanuary 15, 2023 8:03 pm

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

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 17, 2022 12:00 amJanuary 16, 2022 3:50 pm

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

N.J. passed abortion parental notification law 20 years ago, but Supreme Court struck it down

September 2, 2021 3:02 pmSeptember 3, 2021 10:01 am

New Jersey’s bid to pass a law to require pregnant teenagers from obtaining an abortion unless their parents were notified was a big issue in state politics two decades ago and ended with the intervention of the courts. This was...

Chester Apy, former assemblyman and victim of 1960s redistricting, dies at 89

July 25, 2021 5:26 pmJuly 26, 2021 12:45 am

Chester Apy, a respected maverick Republican who represented Monmouth County in the New Jersey State Assembly in the late 1960s and early 1970s and made his mark as an advocate of tax reform – including a vote in support of...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 18, 2021 12:05 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:36 pm

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

Judge assigned to hear Trump v. Murphy is Obama appointee

August 19, 2020 2:47 pmAugust 19, 2020 2:50 pm

The federal judge assigned to hear a legal challenge to vote-by-mail elections filed by Donald Trump’s campaign last night is a registered Democrat who worked under three Democratic governors and was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama. U.S....

New Jersey’s first black Supreme Court Justice praise Pierre-Louis nomination

June 11, 2020 4:10 pm

The first black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court today praised Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis to fill his old seat. “I met Fabiana years ago, and I recall Justice Wallace introducing us,” said retired Associate...