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Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87
Women's Rights Champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 It wasn't a stretch to call Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a rock star. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery for the petite but fiery champion of gender equality, who died Friday in Washington, D.C. Her family was with Ginsburg, who died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer, the court said. She was 87. "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HISTORIC: Murphy Nominates First Black Woman To Serve On NJ's Supreme Court HISTORIC: Murphy Nominates First Black Woman To Serve On NJ's Supreme Court
Historic: Murphy Nominates First Black Woman To Serve On NJ's Supreme Court Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination for the state Supreme Court is going down in history. Murphy has selected Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a partner at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, to serve as the next associate justice of the state’s Supreme Court -- the state's highest. If confirmed by the Senate, Pierre-Louis, 39, will be the first black woman to sit on the court. Pierre-Louis, who has experience with both public and private practice, is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, Essence reports. She graduated with high honors from Rutgers Law School in Camden and worked as clerk for Justice J…

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by Valerie Musson
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Middlesex Judge Who Advised Woman To Sell Nude Photos To Playboy Should Be Censured, Panel Says Middlesex Judge Who Advised Woman To Sell Nude Photos To Playboy Should Be Censured, Panel Says
Middlesex Judge Who Advised Woman To Sell Nude Photos To Playboy Should Be Censured, Panel Says A Middlesex County assignment judge should be censured for suggesting a plaintiff in his courtroom sell nude photos of herself to Playboy magazine, the state’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct said. Rivas, a graduate of Princeton University and Rutgers Law School, has since issued an apology. The panel’s recommendations, released on Wednesday, will go to the state Supreme Court for a decision on disciplinary action. Rivas has been reprimanded twice before for making inappropriate comments from the bench, according to court records.  The latest complaint against the judge came last …

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by Jon Craig