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Finally, New Jersey Republicans can run for office without the specter of Donald Trump haunting them. Or can they?
Conservative activist Seth Grossman’s decision to run for state Senate in the 2nd Legislative District means the kind of hard right politics Trump embraced anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and often racist will still be a force in the Republican contest there.
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The Senate has confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland with bipartisan support.
Garland has already staffed up with former clerks, federal prosecutors, and onetime Senate aides.
One of his advisors, Maggie Goodlander, helped House Democrats in the first impeachment of Trump.
Merrick Garland didn t wait for the Senate s affirmation to get ready for the big job in front of him.
The nation s new attorney general, confirmed in a 70-30 vote with bipartisan support Wednesday, has been busy behind the scenes for several weeks building a team of close advisors drawn from his vast, largely Ivy League-educated network of clerks, along with past Senate aides and a pair of federal prosecutors, according to multiple people familiar with his hiring.
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DRIVING THE DAY
HERE’S WHAT WE CAN SAY at this early hour. If you are gambling or setting odds, there’s a damn good chance that there will be a stimulus deal reached. It could be reached today maybe! Theoretically! given that: Friday is the government funding deadline, all the leaders agree a Covid relief deal should be paired with government funding, they have said they won’t leave town until a Covid deal is notched and passed,