COVID-19, recreational marijuana top New Jersey's stories
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — COVID-19 altered the daily routine in New Jersey in 2020 and sewed a thread through the state's other top stories. Homes were transformed into offices and classrooms....
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — COVID-19 altered the daily routine in New Jersey in 2020 and sewed a thread through the state's other top stories. Homes were transformed into offices and classrooms....
With salons closed, Jersey’s “big hair” grew longer and grayer. All the restrictions Gov. Phil Murphy and his health team ordered sought to stem the infection rate and deaths. And the Democrat wasn’t shy to cop a New Jersey attitude by calling violators “knuckleheads.” As the year ended, there was hope the stenciled, socially distanced footprints in stores and elsewhere would lead to a return to normal. Along the way, other stories shared attention with the pandemic: Voters and lawmakers cleared the way for recreational marijuana; a federal judge’s family was shattered by a gun...
Published: 20 December 2020 20 December 2020 Phoenix, Arizona - A bipartisan coalition of 51 Attorneys General, led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, sent a letter urging Congress to pass legislation to protect the safety of federal judges and their families. "Threats to members of judiciary are on the rise and I am urging Congress to pass this important legislation to help prevent another tragedy from occurring," said General Brnovich. Addressed to leaders of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the letter supports the pa...
December 18, 2020 at 9:53 AM Shares276 (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) After Judge Esther Salas was attacked in her home and lost her son to a crazed gunman, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez drafted legislation to make it a crime for data brokers to sell personal identifying information of federal judges. Dubbed Daniel’s Law after Daniel Anderl, Judge Salas’s deceased son, the bill creates a common sense disincentive that could deter future attacks. So Rand Paul blocked it because he’s a complete dick. Paul offered the following for his move: “I really think that this is impor...
Federal legislation crafted in response to the targeted attack on U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’s family has not received unanimous support from members of the U.S. Senate. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul objected to the legislation on Dec. 16 and asked for the bill to extend the same privacy protections proposed for appointed federal judges to elected members of Congress. The Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2020 is named for Daniel Anderl, the 20-year-old son of Salas who was killed at their North Brunswick home on July 19. He was a 2018 graduate of Saint Joseph High School i...