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Murphy demurs on Rutgers renaming talks

June 29, 2020 4:34 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to say whether Rutgers University should begin a dialogue about pulling Henry Rutgers name from New Jersey’s flagship university. “I’ve not been asked the question on Rutgers, so that’s something I’m not going to speak to...

Murphy gives up Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 27, 2020 1:15 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is no longer using the desk Woodrow Wilson used when he was governor of New Jersey. “The governor has a new desk as of Friday,” Mahen Gunaratna, Murphy’s communications director told the New Jersey Globe. The decision...

Princeton University drops Woodrow Wilson name

June 27, 2020 12:55 pmJune 28, 2020 12:05 am

Princeton University has removed Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College. “Trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students,...

Murphy suggests he’ll stop using Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 22, 2020 4:44 pmJune 22, 2020 5:03 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy suggested he would stop using the desk of former President Woodrow Wilson on Monday. “It’s the only desk I’ve got, but that’s something that I will have to deal with. There’s no question on that,” Murphy said....

Murphy fights racism from behind Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 10, 2020 7:39 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged the former President Woodrow Wilson’s troubled history on race Thursday, but he did not say whether it was reason enough to stop using the former New Jersey governor’s desk. Last week, a picture of Murphy taking...

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...

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,...