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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 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the newest justice on New Jersey’s Suprem...

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 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes under previous harsh sentencing rules.  That didn't matter...