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Bill Castner named new Rutgers general counsel

July 1, 2025 8:45 amJuly 1, 2025 1:10 pm

Bill Castner, one of the most influential attorneys in New Jersey, was named Rutgers University’s Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel at a Board of Governors meeting this morning. The newly-named Rutgers president, William F. Tate IV,...

Farmer: Never Forget

September 12, 2024 3:37 am

Literally from the day of September 11, 2001 to today, that has been our rallying cry, our steadfast determination. And for anyone who was of a certain age that day, we will never forget where we were, and what we...

Farmer: Echoes of 1968

August 23, 2024 10:48 amAugust 23, 2024 3:18 pm

As this year’s Democratic Convention in Chicago approached, comparisons with the last Chicago Convention, in 1968, were both widespread and understandable. Like 2024, with wars raging abroad and unrest growing at home, with shots fired at political figures, with an...

John Farmer: A Tribute to Justice Alan Handler

May 30, 2024 2:35 amMay 30, 2024 10:51 am

I got to know Justice Alan Handler, who died last week at age 92, in the late summer of 1986. I had begun my judicial clerkship a few weeks earlier, and because I had moved to Lambertville, not far from...

Elizabeth Matto named as new Eagleton Institute director

September 13, 2023 3:53 pm

Elizabeth Matto has been named as the new director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, the university announced today. She assumed the role on September 1, succeeding John Farmer Jr., who stepped down earlier this year after...

The karma of Steve Sweeney’s commission ouster

January 26, 2022 5:04 pm

Twelve years ago, Steve Sweeney got his way on the Congressional Redistricting Commission. Fresh off of his victory over former Gov. Richard Codey for the presidency of the New Jersey State Senate, Sweeney decided that he wanted a say on...

For challenge to N.J. congressional map, Supreme Court asks Democrats to respond to Wallace amplification

January 24, 2022 12:59 pmJanuary 24, 2022 11:59 pm

This story was updated at 2:34 PM. In what might be a careful scrutinization of congressional redistricting tiebreaker John E. Wallace, Jr.’s stated reason for picking the Democratic map, the New Jersey Supreme Court today ordered the Democratic commission members...