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Deadline to name legislative redistricting tiebreaker is unclear

August 11, 2021 10:26 amAugust 11, 2021 11:39 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will have the ball on Thursday, and he gets to decide when the 30-day clock to pick a legislative redistricting commission tiebreaker. A 2020 amendment to the State Constitution requires Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to name the...

Identity of legislative redistricting tiebreaker probably won’t be known until November

August 9, 2021 12:01 amAugust 10, 2021 5:01 pm

With the tiebreaker for congressional redistricting set, there will be a lot of hurry up and wait when it comes to knowing the identity of independent member of the panel that will redraw New Jersey’s 40 legislative districts for the...

Rabner gives legislative redistricting commission one month to submit possible tiebreaker candidates

July 9, 2021 9:33 amJuly 27, 2021 2:53 pm

Chief Justice Stuart Rabner has asked Democrats and Republicans to submit a list of candidates to serve as the eleventh member of the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission by August 10. That puts the selection process for legislative and congressional...

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 Byrne Court

June 7, 2020 10:03 pmJune 7, 2020 10:57 pm

Gov. Brendan Byrne’s first opportunity to nominate a Supreme Court Justice came in early 1975 when Associate Justice Nathan Jacobs turned 70. He asked former Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub to vet candidates for the post. His pick was Sidney Schreiber,...

Murphy names panel on judicial appointments

March 20, 2018 9:35 pmMarch 21, 2018 8:24 am

A group of mostly former New Jersey Supreme Court Justices were named today to a panel to advise Gov. Phil Murphy on judicial appointments. Murphy has picked former Chief Justice James Zazzali to chair the Judicial Advisory Panel, and named...