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Judge Faces Discipline For Wearing Hat With Palestine Flag To Conference
By wearing a cap with the Palestine flag, the judge engaged in political speech barred by judicial ethics rules, a state ethics panel says.
Los Estados Que Lideraban La Vacunación Infantil Ahora Están Rezagados A Medida Que Amplían Las Exenciones
Más estados de EE. UU. registran una caída en la vacunación infantil debido al aumento de exenciones y desinformación.
Biden administration says closure of ICE detention center in New Jersey would be ‘catastrophic’
The Biden administration is siding with a private prison corporation’s legal effort to keep an immigration detention center in Elizabeth from shuttering, claiming its impending closure would be “catastrophic” to federal immigration efforts. The U.S. Department of Justice in a legal filing calls New Jersey’s 2021 law banning all immigration detention contracts — the agency refers to the law as AB 5207 — unconstitutional and says closing the Elizabeth facility would harm the federal government amid an influx of migrants and closures of other detention centers around the nation.
Medical marijuana sales are dropping in N.J., but is that a bad sign?
As sales for the state’s recreational cannabis industry take off, New Jersey’s decade-old medical marijuana program is shrinking every month. Medical marijuana sales are nearly half of what they were six months ago, and more than 20,000 patients dropped out of the medical program since its peak in May 2022, according to state data.
US Supreme Court strikes down use of affirmative action in college admissions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, June 29, 2023, ruled that two prominent universities’ consideration of race in acceptances violated the U.S. Constitution, effectively reshaping the role of affirmative action in the college admissions process throughout higher education.
Legislators advance bill to feed all students free lunch in New Jersey by 2028
All students in New Jersey would get free lunches under new legislation an Assembly panel unanimously advanced Thursday. Giving all students free lunches, instead of only those from low-income households as schools do now, would remove the stigma that keeps some hungry students from participating in the federally funded free and reduced-price lunch program, supporters said.
