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U.S. Supreme Court to hear case on state judicial appointments

December 7, 2019 6:20 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to determine if states can consider party affiliation of judges as a requirement for appointment, a move that could have significance in New Jersey where partisan registration is considered in the judicial nomination...

New Jersey Working Families executive director Sue Altman being removed by the New Jersey State Police from a Senate hearing on November 18, 2019. Photo courtesy of Twitter via Pranshu Verma.

Senate threatens subpoena for State Police probe of Altman removal

December 5, 2019 9:34 amDecember 5, 2019 11:38 am

The New Jersey State Senate will subpoena the internal State Police investigation into the removal of progressive leader Sue Altman from a Senate committee hearing last month if the Attorney General’s office refuses to publicly disclose the report’s findings. “The...

Democrats approach million voter registration edge in New Jersey

December 4, 2019 12:15 pmDecember 4, 2019 11:02 pm

New Jersey now has 981,303 more Democrats than Republicans, according to statewide voter registration numbers released by the New Jersey Secretary of State. Democrats are on a path to having a registration edge of one million voters at some point...

Deleted Duane Morris post claims Murphy allies threatened Dems to get Currie support

December 3, 2019 12:05 amDecember 3, 2019 9:49 pm

A lobbying group owned by the law firm representing Gov. Phil Murphy’s campaign alleged in a website post that allies of the governor threatened to withhold funds from Hunterdon County Democrats unless they support John Currie for re-election as state...

Huge overhead dominated Democratic state party spending

November 27, 2019 4:07 pmNovember 27, 2019 5:40 pm

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee spent more than $1.2 million on overhead in the first 10 months of 2019, at least four times as much as it spent on races in the state, a New Jersey Globe examination of...

Warren Wolf, former assemblyman and famed football coach, dies at 92

November 23, 2019 1:08 amNovember 23, 2019 1:47 am

Former Assemblyman Warren H. Wolf, who served enjoyed a successful career Ocean County politics and a legendary high school football coach for more than 50 years, died on Friday. He was 92. Wolf was a Republican assemblyman from 1982 to...

Aura Dunn wins big for Bucco Assembly seat

November 21, 2019 8:07 pmNovember 22, 2019 4:02 pm

Aura Dunn, a former top aide to Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, has been elected to the New Jersey State Assembly, winning a special election convention to fill the remaining seven weeks of Anthony M. Bucco’s current term in the 25th district....