John Wallace Archives

No consensus on congressional redistricting tiebreaker, parties say

August 1, 2021 4:02 pmAugust 1, 2021 9:31 pm

Counsel for the Democratic and Republican members of the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission told Chief Justice Stuart Rabner on Friday that they can’t help the Supreme Court avoid taking sides in the race for tiebreaker. “There were communications between...

Still no meeting set for both parties to discuss congressional redistricting tiebreaker

July 30, 2021 3:22 pmAugust 1, 2021 4:02 pm

Hours before a deadline imposed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission has no meeting scheduled for today to discuss a resolution to a logjam on tiebreakers. That could change, but at 3:15 PM no meetings...

Steinhardt blast Democrats for maneuvers surrounding congressional redistricting tiebreaker

July 28, 2021 7:12 pmJuly 29, 2021 8:51 am

A bid by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on a tiebreaker for congressional redistricting is blowing up into a fight before the process to draw new districts has even started. Doug Steinhardt, the GOP...

Democrats add Poritz to list of congressional redistricting tiebreakers

July 26, 2021 12:17 amJuly 26, 2021 11:36 am

Democrats on the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission have added a second option to their list of candidates for tiebreaker, but the new candidate – former Chief Justice Deborah Poritz – is hardly an acceptable pick for Republicans. In a...

Who will the Supreme Court pick as the congressional redistricting tiebreaker? 15 questions — and answers — about what comes next

July 16, 2021 3:05 amJuly 16, 2021 3:50 pm

The New Jersey Supreme Court inherited a political hot potato on Thursday after Democratic and Republican commissioners on the Congressional Redistricting Commission failed to agree on a consensus candidate to serve as the independent 13th member of the panel. The...

Trailblazer: Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis

January 18, 2021 12:30 amJanuary 17, 2021 9:49 pm

Fabiana Pierre-Louis is the first Black woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Gov. Phil Murphy nominated Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice of the state’s top court in 2020. She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and replaced...

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...