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It’s not lame duck. But it feels like it.
When the Legislature meets tomorrow, it will consider legislation with huge implications: Marijuana legalization/decrimilnalization and allowing the state’s largest health insurer to restructure in order to act more like a for-profit business.
Suspension proposed for judge who told defendant how to show women ‘you’re in control’
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
A state judicial committee is recommending a one-month, unpaid suspension for a municipal judge who advised a domestic violence defendant on how to “let [women] know you’re the man and you’re in control.”
Steven A. Brister, who serves as a municipal judge in East Orange and as needed in Newark, violated judicial rules with his “sexist and misogynistic” comments and by bringing his religious beliefs into the courtroom, according to a filing by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct to the Supreme Court, which will mete out any punishment.