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Senate will change schedule to speed up Fasciale Supreme Court nomination

September 2, 2022 2:13 pmSeptember 2, 2022 3:40 pm

The New Jersey Senate is expected to adjust its meeting schedule this month to fast track the expected nomination of Douglas M. Fasciale to the New Jersey Supreme Court, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. Gov. Phil Murphy plans to...

Rabner exhorts governor, legislature to address Supreme Court vacancies

May 20, 2022 10:44 amMay 20, 2022 12:49 pm

With one seat on the seven-member New Jersey Supreme Court vacant, another occupied by a temporary replacement judge, and a third held by a permanent justice who will hit the mandatory retirement age in seven weeks, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner...

Lawmaker will seek to impeach corrections commissioner over prison abuse scandal

February 5, 2021 7:02 pmFebruary 6, 2021 1:22 pm

Assemblywoman Jean Stanfield is planning to initiate impeachment proceedings against state Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks over allegations of beatings and sexual assaults at a woman’s prison he ran. Stanfield’s move to ask the State Assembly to impeach a member of...

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N.J. Supreme Court: The McGreevey and Corzine Courts

June 7, 2020 10:11 pmJune 7, 2020 11:20 pm

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman resigned in February 2001 to join President George W. Bush’s cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Senate President Donald DiFrancesco succeeded her as governor, but no seats on the New Jersey Supreme Court...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Whitman Court

June 7, 2020 10:08 pmJune 7, 2020 11:19 pm

By the time Tom Kean left office in January 1989, the oldest member of the New Jersey Supreme Court was Robert Clifford, who would not reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 until 1994. With no unanticipated vacancies, Gov. Jim...

Payne endorses Jones for Democratic State Chairman

November 19, 2019 1:50 pmNovember 19, 2019 2:39 pm

Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-Newark) has endorsed LeRoy Jones, Jr. for New Jersey Democratic State Chairman. Payne had previously told the New Jersey Globe that he wasn’t ready to choose between Jones and the incumbent, John Currie. “I honestly believe...

Stonewalling on Alvarez won’t help Murphy, O’Scanlon says

February 7, 2019 5:04 pm

State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon (R-Little Silver) on Thursday said Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration isn’t well-served by the mystery swirling around the identity of the person who hired former Schools Development Authority chief of staff Al Alvarez. “This ridiculous circling of...