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Oroho names Scrivo, Wright to legislative ethics commission

January 21, 2022 6:34 pm

Senate Minority Leader Steve Oroho (R-Franklin) has named a managing partner of one of the state’s most influential law firms to a seat on the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards. Thomas P. Scrivo, a former chief counsel to Gov....

Court denies emergency injunction against Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act

January 21, 2022 4:17 pmJanuary 21, 2022 5:37 pm

Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy today rejected a request for an emergency injunction blocking the implementation of the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, a bill passed by the legislature last week that codifies abortion access into state law. The case’s...

Hogan still mulling re-election bid in Gloucester

January 21, 2022 3:41 pmJanuary 21, 2022 5:29 pm

A legendary Gloucester County official says he will decide within the next three to four weeks if he will seek re-election to a six term this year. There has been speculation that Democratic County Clerk James N. Hogan, 80, is...

Wallace probably won’t be reappointed as legislative ethics panel chairman

January 21, 2022 11:06 amJanuary 21, 2022 4:18 pm

Former Supreme Court Justice John E. Wallace, Jr. is unlikely to return to his post as chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Wallace had served as chair of both the New...

Advisors to independent redistricting tiebreakers funded by major Democratic donors

January 20, 2022 3:09 pmJanuary 21, 2022 11:08 am

A Princeton University group that was brought in to advise the independent, court-picked tiebreakers for congressional and legislative redistricting in New Jersey is being financed by donors with ties to national and state Democrats. All three of the of the...

Durr on Murphy executive order: ‘No more Murphy mandates’

January 20, 2022 1:48 pmJanuary 20, 2022 4:55 pm

State Sen. Ed Durr (R-Swedesboro), currently serving in his second week as a legislator after unexpectedly defeating Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) last year, today criticized Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order mandating vaccines and boosters for health care workers...

Here are the 67 candidates for Congress in N.J., at least as of right now

January 20, 2022 10:50 amJanuary 20, 2022 5:04 pm

Update: the number of House candidates is now down to 66. Will Monk says he will seek re-election to the Mount Holly school. So far, as many as 67 candidates are seeking Democratic and Republican nominations for Congress in New...