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These immigrants face deportation after living in N.J. for 2 decades
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
A temporary restraining order is all that currently allows 22 Indonesian Christians, who overstayed their visas after fleeing violence in their native country, to remain in the Central Jersey communities they’ve lived in for more than two decades.
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas eventually will lift her order and rule whether those immigrants can petition to be allowed to remain in the U.S. permanently. Briefs from both sides are due Thursday.
But even if Salas rules that they can request asylum, the federal government will be able to deport them at any time before their cases are heard.
AG should investigate Murphy challenger for fraud after she was tossed from ballot, election official says
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Gov. Phil Murphy and Lisa McCormick, whose petitions to challenge him in the Democratic primary were tossed out.Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media and Lisa McCormick campaign
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New Jersey’s secretary of state is asking the attorney general’s office to investigate possible fraudulent petitions a Democratic hopeful filed in an attempt to run against Gov. Phil Murphy in the upcoming primary.
The move comes a day after an administrative judge ruled Lisa McCormick didn’t have a single valid signature from all of the 1,951 she submitted to enter the Democratic primary. The state requires a minimum of 1,000 signatures to get on the gubernatorial ballot.
Gov. Murphy’s Democratic primary opponents should be tossed off ballot, judges say
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
It looks like Gov. Phil Murphy will go unchallenged in this year’s Democratic gubernatorial primary after administrative law judges Tuesday said his two would-be challengers should be tossed off the ballot for failing to get enough voter signatures on their petitions.
Judge Jeffrey Rabin ruled one of the challengers, Lisa McCormick, didn’t have a single valid signature from all of the 1,951 she submitted. The state requires a minimum of 1,000 signatures to get on the gubernatorial ballot.
The Democratic State Committee charged that McCormick’s campaign used voter data to automatically fill petitions without the voters’ knowledge. There were at least two petitioners who were dead when they allegedly signed their support for McCormick’s campaign, some names were misspelled and others had moved out of the state, Rajiv Parikh, attorney for the Democratic State Committ
$1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Plan Opens New Horizons in Fight Against Austerity
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference with House Democrats regarding the upcoming vote on the American Rescue Plan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2021.
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The American Rescue Plan (ARP), the Biden administrationâs opening statement, has passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 220-211. President Biden is expected to sign it into law this week.
Some hail the ARP as the greatest Democratic legislative accomplishment since the New Deal, a progressive policy treasure trove that will fundamentally rewire American political priorities even as it hauls millions out of the abyss of poverty and despair. A number of progressives also rightly decry a slew of missed and mangled opportunities. House Republicans voted âNoâ