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Teachers union PAC has given $40M to group backing union president's gubernatorial run • New Jersey Monitor

5 days ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

A super PAC aligned with statewide teachers union the New Jersey Education Association has put at least $40 million into an independent expenditure group backing the gubernatorial candidacy of Democrat Sean Spiller, the union’s president, according to new campaign filings. Working New Jersey, the independent expenditure group, reported spending nearly $37.5 million in a preelection report filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission and made public Monday.
Governor signs bill aimed at deterring pop-up parties

5 days ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

The Senate on Monday joined the Assembly in concurring with Gov. Phil Murphy’s conditional veto of a bill that would create new criminal charges to deter disruptive pop-up parties that have harried some New Jersey towns in recent years, and the bill became law after Murphy signed it Monday afternoon.
New Jersey asks appellate court to deny school desegregation case appeal

5 days ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Sophie Nieto-Munoz

by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor June 2, 2025 Attorneys for the state of New Jersey want an appellate court to deny a request by nonprofit groups and several public school families who want the court to hear their case that New Jersey schools are unconstitutionally segregated along racial and socioeconomic lines.
Republicans running to become New Jersey governor want tax cuts

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

Republicans hoping to reclaim New Jersey’s governorship are largely united on how to make New Jersey more affordable. They want to cut taxes. Though virtually all five of the GOP candidates to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy support some form of tax cut — whether through rate changes or awards to offset locally set property taxes — they differ some on the details. The primary is June 10. Bramnick State Sen.
N.J. lawmakers consider shortening timeline to fill House vacancies

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

New Jersey lawmakers are considering changes to the state’s special election rules after two sitting members of New Jersey’s House delegation died in office last year, deaths that led each of those seats to remain vacant for five months. The legislation, which would shorten timelines for special elections to fill House vacancies, comes as another New Jersey member of Congress could step down by next January. Reps.
N.J. lawmakers mull whether to recriminalize some cannabis sales, purchases

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Sophie Nieto-Munoz

by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor May 29, 2025 Lawmakers mulled Thursday whether New Jersey should ramp up enforcement against unlicensed cannabis sellers by passing a bill that would criminalize the purchase of unlicensed marijuana. The bill riled cannabis activists who say it would bring back the criminalization of weed that New Jersey’s marijuana legalization law was supposed to end.
Trump admin likely violated Constitution in bid to deport Columbia University activist, judge says

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Sophie Nieto-Munoz

A federal judge said Wednesday that attempts to deport a pro-Palestinian Columbia University activist likely violate the Constitution, dealing a potential blow to efforts by the Trump administration to kick political student activists out of the country. But U.S. Judge Michael Farbiarz stopped short of releasing Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the U.S., from the Louisiana jail where he is being held. Farbiarz directed Khalil’s legal team to present more arguments on why he should be released.
Here's how the Democrats running to be governor say they'll make New Jersey more affordable • New Jersey Monitor

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Nikita Biryukov

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor May 29, 2025 Voter Guide Eleven candidates are running in the June 10 Democratic and GOP gubernatorial primaries. Affordability is perennially a top issue in New Jersey elections, and the six Democrats hoping to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy all have plans to bring down costs here in the Garden State.
Congresswoman running for N.J. governor is target of escalating attacks on campaign trail

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Dana DiFilippo

With less than two weeks to go before the June 10 primary, Democrats vying to become New Jersey’s next governor have stepped up their attacks on Rep. Mikie Sherrill, who election observers and pollsters consider to be the race’s front-runner. In new television ads and mailers, Sherrill’s rivals have bashed her wealth, her establishment ties, and past campaign contributions she accepted from a PAC associated with SpaceX, the spaceflight company helmed by Elon Musk.
Candidates for governor say how they would revamp NJ Transit

1 week ago | newjerseymonitor.com | Sophie Nieto-Munoz

The candidates running to become our next governor are making big promises to reform NJ Transit. The six Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for governor on June 10 and the three Republican front-runners agree that the embattled public transit agency is broken, but they differ on what they’d do to address spotty service and funding problems. Eight years ago, Gov.