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New Jersey AG To Sue Trump Administration Over Citizenship Census Question
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading a multi-state coalition of elected officials who are intending to challenge President Donald Trump and the federal government’s decision to bring back a question asking about citizen status in the 2020 United States Census.
On Monday night, the Commerce Department announced it would indeed reintroduce the question, which had been asked until 1960. The lawsuit was filed by Attorneys General in New York, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New…
4 Sent To Federal Prison In Dog-Fighting Ring That Stretched From NJ To NM
Four men who participated in an interstate dog-fighting network that stretched from New Jersey to New Mexico were sentenced to varying federal prison sentences, authorities announced Monday.
The last of them, 32-year-old Lydell "Sinn" Harris of Vineland was sentenced Monday to 17 months in prison.
Sentenced earlier this month were:
Anthony “Monte” Gaines, 37, of Vineland: 42 months;
Frank Nichols, 40, of Millville: 57 months;
Pedro Cuellar, 47, of Willow Springs, Illinois: 12 months in prison.
All four previously pleaded guilty. A fifth co-defendant, Mario Atkinson, 42, of Asbu…
