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New Jersey’s Q1 congressional fundraising, by the numbers

April 16, 2024 3:30 pmApril 16, 2024 11:15 pm

As is often the case each cycle, the first fundraising quarter of 2024 – covering January 1 through March 31 – was when the state of play in many of New Jersey’s top races came into focus. The state’s congressional...

Booker endorses Altman for Congress

April 3, 2024 1:56 pm

Sue Altman, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Congress in the competitive 7th congressional district, announced an endorsement today from U.S. Senator Cory Booker. “I’m proud to endorse my friend Sue Altman,” Booker said in a statement. “I’ve long respected her...

Republican Senate candidates remain almost entirely unknown, per Emerson poll

April 3, 2024 10:12 amApril 3, 2024 3:51 pm

The field of Republicans running for U.S. Senate this year – including the two leading candidates, Mendham Borough Mayor Christine Serrano Glassner and developer Curtis Bashaw – remains almost completely unknown to the state’s GOP electorate, according to a poll...

How N.J.’s congressional delegation voted in March

April 2, 2024 12:58 pm

March 2024 may best be remembered as the month that Congress finally funded the federal government, passing two big packages of appropriations bills that were initially supposed to be approved back in September of last year. But the House and...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

March 22, 2024 1:20 pm

The government will probably keep the lights on! House Speaker Mike Johnson is under threat of losing his job! The first-ever Muslim federal appeals court nominee, a New Jerseyan, may not make it through the Senate! It was an eventful...

Pascrell says he’d entertain ballot design reforms, but not this close to the election

March 21, 2024 12:16 pmMarch 21, 2024 8:20 pm

As U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi deliberates on Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown)’s lawsuit challenging the New Jersey county line, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) said yesterday that he’s open to a discussion on ballot design reforms – but not when...

With N.J. Circuit Court nominee in trouble, Biden may have to switch tactics – and soon

March 21, 2024 11:01 amMarch 21, 2024 5:28 pm

Democrats in the U.S. Senate don’t appear to have the votes to confirm New Jersey’s Adeel Mangi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, presenting President Joe Biden with a difficult political – and moral – dilemma:...