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The Man With The Golden Arm

April 14, 2022 8:12 am

Nicholas V. Caputo was the Man With The Golden Arm. As the Essex County Clerk from 1961 to 1991, Caputo was legendary for drawing Line A for the Essex County Democratic organization in every primary and in every general, except...

The Man With The Golden Arm

April 16, 2021 10:53 amApril 17, 2021 2:08 pm

Nicholas V. Caputo was the Man With The Golden Arm. As the Essex County Clerk from 1961 to 1991, Caputo was legendary for drawing Line A for the Essex County Democratic organization in every primary and in every general, except...

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...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Kean Court

June 7, 2020 10:05 pmJune 7, 2020 11:02 pm

Brendan Byrne’s Supreme Court makeover — a Chief Justice and three younger than usual Associate Justices — plus William Cahill’s pick of 49-year-old Robert Clifford — meant that Gov. Thomas Kean would get to name only two Supreme Court Justices...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Cahill Court

June 7, 2020 10:02 pmJune 7, 2020 10:50 pm

After Republican William T. Cahill was elected governor in 1969, the Supreme Court Justices named by Gov. Robert Meyner reached retirement age and New Jersey’s top court began to see some turnover. Cahill made his first Supreme Court appointment in...

Ethics complaints against NJ judges not uncommon

July 10, 2019 1:22 amMarch 7, 2023 11:26 am

The emerging controversy over comments made by Superior Court Judges Marcia Silva (Middlesex) and James Troiano (Ocean) in unconnected rape cases casts a spotlight on a state judiciary that sometimes appears to operate under one set of ethics rules for...

The Man with the Golden Arm

August 13, 2018 12:10 amMarch 31, 2020 12:18 pm

Nicholas V. Caputo was the Man with the Golden Arm. As the Essex County Clerk from 1961 to 1991, Caputo was legendary for drawing Line A for the Essex County Democratic organization in every primary and in every general, except...