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N.J. Governors Office Rachel Wainer Apter speaks from a podium at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, Rutgers University-Newark on Monday, March 15, 2021. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate Rachel Wainer Apter to the state Supreme Court, replacing Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia, who plans to retire from the high court in August. Wainer Apter, who was once a clerk for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has served as director of the Division of Civil Rights in the Office o...

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Gov. Phil Murphy plans to nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, a North Jersey native and former law clerk for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to the states highest court later this year.  A registered Democrat, Wainer Apter would tilt the ideology of the seven-member Supreme Court, since LaVecchia is its lone unaffiliated voter.  At a ceremony at Rutgers Universitys Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, on what would have been the justices 88th birthday, Wainer Apter said she shares the driving principles of h...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday nominated Rachel Wainer Apter to be an associate justice of the state Supreme Court, making his pick to replace retiring Jaynee LaVecchia.

Trenton Bureau Gov. Phil Murphy plans to nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, a North Jersey native and former law clerk for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to the states highest court later this year.  A registered Democrat, Wainer Apter would tilt the ideology of the seven-member Supreme Court, since LaVecchia is its lone unaffiliated voter.  At a ceremony at Rutgers Universitys Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, on what would have been the justices 88th birthday, Wainer Apter said she shares the driving ...

Rachel Wainer Apter, currently head of the state’s civil rights division, would be the 41st justice of New Jersey’s highest court if confirmed.

Murphy picks civil rights attorney, former Ruth Bader Ginsburg clerk to join N.J. Supreme Court Updated Mar 15, 2021; Posted Mar 15, 2021 Rachel Wainer Apter speaks at Rutgers-Newark’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on Monday morning after Gov. Phil Murphy announced he will nominate her to become the newest justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday he will nominate a civil rights attorney and former clerk to ...

New Jersey civil rights director Rachel Wainer Apter has been chosen to fill an upcoming vacancy on the state's Supreme Court, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday, a pick that drew praise for her track record of defending immigrants' rights and dismantling online hate speech.

Though he peppered Jersey City landlords with a flurry of applications, future restaurant owner Candido Ortiz couldn’t find a place to live in the same city where he worked. Once landlords ran a background check, he would routinely be denied, or not hear back. Ortiz had served 28 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute narcotics and possession of a firearm. In 2016, President Barack Obama commuted his close-to-50-year sentence, also granting clemency to hundreds of other federal inmat...