Donald Scarinci Archives - New Jersey Globe

Scarinci: Mikie Sherrill shows Democrats how to win: tell the truth

July 26, 2026 4:41 pmJuly 27, 2026 10:00 am

Governor Mikie Sherrill deserves praise for doing something that should be routine in public life but has become remarkably rare: she acknowledged that government failed. A serious software error in New Jersey’s motor vehicle system improperly registered approximately 6,600 people...

Scarinci: Ruby Choi Is the right pick for Jersey City

July 12, 2026 12:27 pmJuly 13, 2026 12:18 am

Jersey City’s new Business Administrator, Ruby Choi, has assumed one of the most difficult municipal management assignments in New Jersey. Mayor James Solomon’s administration is confronting a fiscal crisis while an affordability crisis is squeezing residents across the nation. How...

Scarinci: Public business belongs on public email

June 29, 2026 10:27 am

Public Business Belongs on Public Email Every good municipal attorney cautions newly elected local officials to stick to their public email account and to use their public provided cell phone when conducting public business. The New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent...

Scarinci: Staggered 18-Year Terms Can Save SCOTUS

June 13, 2026 12:37 pm

After years of study by constitutional scholars, reform organizations, and the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, Congress now has before it a concrete bill to reform Supreme Court tenure without packing the Court and without...

Scarinci: Parsippany’s Connection to 1776

May 18, 2026 9:38 am

As America celebrates the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Mayor Pulkit Desai can proudly point to Parsippany’s connection to the story of our nation’s birth. Perhaps the most well-known retelling of the story of our separation from Kings...

Scarinci: Understanding the 25th Amendment

May 3, 2026 4:24 pm

While the prospect of removing a sitting President has been floated several times in our country’s history, the 25th Amendment’s most controversial mechanism has never actually been used. In theory, the 25th Amendment provides a clear constitutional mechanism to deal...

Scarinci: N.J. bill bans grocery retailers from using AI to set prices

March 29, 2026 2:19 pm

As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes the way companies set prices, Joseph Lagana and Joseph Cryan in the Senate and Chigozie Onyema and William Sampson in the Assembly have proposed new legislation that would prohibit grocery retailers from using high-tech algorithms...