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Nobody would ve expected the 70+ percent approval rating Gov. Phil Murphy enjoyed in the early days of the pandemic to last this far into the crisis. So he’s got to be pretty happy with a Monmouth University poll the gold standard of New Jersey polling pegging his approval rating with state residents at 57 percent while 35 percent disapprove.
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Good Monday morning!
Another Supreme Court vacancy, another young woman to fill it.
Gov. Murphy will nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, the director of the Division of Civil Rights, to the seat being vacated by Jaynee LaVecchia, I’ve confirmed. David Wildstein reported it first. The big headline here is that she’s a former clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose 88th birthday would have been today.
If she s confirmed, Murphy will have placed two women on the court who will be able to serve for 30 years. That’s a long legacy, though I’m not sure whether it really is one. As Gov. Christie’s picks have shown us, state Supreme Court justices don’t necessarily vote the way their nominator would like them to. But if you’re just looking for another reliably liberal vote, this nominee doesn t seem likely to veer right once on the bench.
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As Assemblymembers Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Gordon Johnson competed for Democratic Party support to succeed retiring state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the senator has remained neutral at least publicly.
“You’ll have to ask her that question,” Huttle told me when I asked if she believed Weinberg had
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Good Tuesday morning!
Do you have your six ounces of weed on you? Have no fear. You won’t get in trouble.
That’s right. Weed is legal in New Jersey. Well, sort of. There’s still no way to legally buy it. But you’re not going to be prosecuted for having “small” amounts on you. And yes, by “small,” I mean up to six ounces. Which is not small unless you’re NJ Weedman, who could probably go through that amount in a lunch break.