All posts tagged "New Jersey"

A Department of Justice lawyer was forced to eat his own words after boasting about getting New Jersey's voter rolls then failing the next day.

On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed a DOJ case seeking New Jersey's unredacted voter rolls. The decision gave the Trump DOJ its 18th straight defeat in court when it comes to its nationwide effort to grab state voter rolls.

However, Democracy Docket noted in its coverage of the decision that the DOJ's loss was made more ironic by one of its attorneys boasting the day before that it would secure New Jersey's voter rolls....

A Democratic lawmaker revealed that the "software glitch" responsible for allowing illegal voter registrations in New Jersey was from a company that is used across the Trump administration.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday that the same company responsible for the glitch also works in federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration.

Gottheimer responded to the news announced by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and brought up a serious concern....

An activist dressed up as a purple bong and another protester singing songs derailed a New Jersey city council meeting, TMZ reported Thursday.

During public comment at the Cranford Township meeting Tuesday, a man who called himself "Bongholeo," dressed up as the smoking apparatus and carried a car seat with his son "Bongholito." He sang along to the tune of Lizzo's hit song "It's About Damn Time," but instead inserted his own lyrics: "It's big bong o'clock, yeah, it's hit 30." He walked away from the podium when he was finished.

It wasn't his first time at a city council meeting, and in 2024 he got kicked out of an Edison council meeting, TMZ reported....

A Republican congressman who has been missing for months kept racking up campaign travel expenses despite claiming he can't work due to personal medical issues, according to a new report.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has been absent since early March and has missed 88 House votes, but it hasn't stopped him from traveling, according to reporting by The New Republic.

In mid-April, already a month into his disappearance, Kean paid for trips via Amtrak, Uber, and Lyft, according to reports shared by The New Republic. ...

A Republican lawmaker has gone missing amid a critical reelection campaign in a New Jersey swing district as his fellow GOP colleagues have questioned what's happened to him, according to reports on Thursday.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s team has cited health issues for why he's been missing in action and hasn't voted since March 5 — missing almost 50 roll call votes — but Republican lawmakers have been unable to locate him, Politico reported. No further details on his health status have been released.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he tried to find Kean on the House floor on Tuesday and hadn't realized he was missing before. ...

The New York and New Jersey-based outlet Gothamist reports Democratic candidates in the Garden State are clamoring to run in what both parties see as competitive races in next year’s midterm elections. But the same cannot be said for the GOP.

“In a cycle when both parties have their eyes on the House majority, up to a dozen candidates are lining up to run on the Democratic side in key New Jersey congressional races, compared to just one or two from the GOP,” Gothamist reports, as Republicans anticipate “a wave election, and not in their favor.”

“When you have a party that has lots of really good candidates jumping out of the gate and chomping at the bit, that's usually an indication that they think the party has good chances,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of Rider University's Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. “When you don't see people coming out of the woodwork, that's an indication that the candidates believe that the party is not going to have as good a shot.”...