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How New Jersey’s senators have voted on U.S Supreme Court nominations

February 25, 2022 1:39 pm

New Jersey’s two United States Senators, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, may get a chance to vote on the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This will be the seventh top 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...

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,...

N.J. Supreme Court: Alfred Driscoll’s first seven picks

June 7, 2020 9:58 pmJune 7, 2020 10:44 pm

Gov. Alfred Driscoll picked the first seven members of the New Jersey Supreme Court in late 1947, months after voters approved a new State Constitution that completely revamped an antiquated and obsolete judiciary. Since then, every governor but Richard Hughes,...

Gottheimer will swear in Frelinghuysen’s new GOP mayor

January 21, 2020 10:02 amJanuary 21, 2020 10:05 am

The new Republican mayor of Frelinghuysen Township has picked a Democratic congressman to swear him in. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) will administer the oath of office this afternoon to Christopher Stracco. Stracco, 56, has served on the Frelinghuysen Township Committee...

The Story of Sills

October 17, 2018 1:02 amOctober 17, 2018 1:03 am

A primer on gravitas-filled Arthur J. Sills, the respected founder of Peter Verniero’s law firm, Sills Cummis & Gross and for a time one of the New Jersey’s most powerful political insiders. After Harvard Law School, Sills went to work for...