Loretta Weinberg Archives - New Jersey Globe

Is New Jersey about to face a reckoning over abortion access?

May 20, 2022 4:44 pmMay 23, 2022 1:03 am

When Gov. Phil Murphy debuted his proposals for expanding abortion access in New Jersey last week, it was something of a triumphant moment for the governor and his allies. With the U.S. Supreme Court potentially prepared to overturn Roe v....

For Weinberg, it’s the same fight in different centuries

May 13, 2022 7:55 pmMay 13, 2022 8:49 pm

Nearly 50 years ago, six month before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a young delegate from Teaneck went to the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach to fight for the inclusion a reproductive freedom plank...

Statements on the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade

May 3, 2022 10:46 amMay 4, 2022 1:57 pm

Last night, Politico released a leaked draft majority opinion written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a 1973 case that established the constitutional right to abortion. Though the draft is not necessarily final...

Young people are significantly underrepresented in Trenton

March 25, 2022 2:44 pmMarch 28, 2022 12:25 am

Does the New Jersey legislature have an age problem? Usually, that kind of question is answered with statistics about just how old politicians are. The average age of a New Jersey legislator, for example, is 58-and-a-half; looking just at the...

Murphy makes five nominations and appointments to NJ Transit board

March 25, 2022 10:26 am

Gov. Phil Murphy announced yesterday his choices for five open seats on the 13-member New Jersey Transit Board of Directors: Carlos Medina, Kiabi Carson, and Evan Weiss for three Senate-confirmed spots, and Rashonda Brown and Karen Thomas for two spots...

Former legislators sail through Senate Judiciary Committee

January 27, 2022 12:58 pm

The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced three of their former colleagues – former State Sen. Kip Bateman (R-Branchburg), former State Sen. Dawn Addiego (D-Evesham), and former Assemblywoman Linda Stender (D-Fanwood) – by unanimous votes, clearing the way for the former...

Who were the holdouts on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act?

January 18, 2022 6:00 amJanuary 17, 2022 11:15 pm

When the New Jersey legislature passed the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act last week, codifying abortion into state law, it did so largely on partisan lines: Democrats were eager to support the bill while Republicans lined up against it. But...