Zahid Quraishi Archives - New Jersey Globe

DOJ cites 6,600 noncitizen registrations in voter-roll lawsuit against New Jersey

July 22, 2026 9:41 am

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized on New Jersey’s disclosure that a software failure registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens to vote — including about 400 who cast ballots — as a new basis for its federal lawsuit seeking access to...

Bob Smith will make decision on re-election to Senate by Thanksgiving

June 12, 2026 10:53 amJune 12, 2026 3:30 pm

Veteran State Sen. Bob Smith (D-Piscataway) hasn’t decided if he’ll seek re-election to his 17th district Senate seat next year, but he promised a final decision by Thanksgiving. There has been speculation in recent months that Smith, the 79-year-old chairman...

How federal judges and the White House came together to pick a new U.S. Attorney

March 26, 2026 1:19 pmMarch 27, 2026 12:24 am

The March 23 announcement that New Jersey’s District Court judges had appointed Robert Frazer as the next U.S. Attorney took almost everyone by surprise, but it followed several days of negotiations between the state’s top federal judge and a leading...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

March 20, 2026 5:21 pm

Both the House and the Senate were in town this week, but it was the Senate where the real action took place, featuring battles over a new Department of Homeland Security nominee, a controversial voter ID bill, and another Iran...

2025 New Jersey Globe Year in Review

December 31, 2025 3:25 pmJanuary 8, 2026 11:04 am

Click HERE to download a high-resolution version of the 2025 New Jersey Globe Voter’s Guide. Click HERE for a lower-resolution version For the eighth time, the New Jersey Globe presents our annual Year in Review, a look back at the...

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging county-line bracketing, citing mootness

November 12, 2025 5:33 pm

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from a Duquesne law professor and minor congressional candidate challenging the legality of bracketing on New Jersey primary ballots, ruling New Jersey’s new ballot-design legislation renders the lawsuit moot. Eugene Mazo, a...

Kim, fellow anti-line activists say some issues still need resolving in county line lawsuit

September 30, 2025 3:27 pmSeptember 30, 2025 3:42 pm

Discussion in New Jersey political circles of the county line – the now-defunct ballot design system that gave an upper hand to party-endorsed candidates – may have petered out in the last few months, but Senator Andy Kim and his...