"They shot him so many times. I don't know why they shot him," says one witness. "none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR," says another. "Instead...ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."

'Terrifying abuses of power': Judge hears arguments over leadership arrangement at New Jersey prosecutor's office politi.co/4rb9qsu for @politico

A federal judge will hear arguments Friday that the Trump administration is illegally running the New Jersey federal prosecutor’s office — the latest challenge to the administration’s attempts to circumvent the Senate confirmation process. w/ @MattFriedmanNJ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Rep. LaMonica McIver, the New Jersey Democrat who is being prosecuted by the Trump administration, is expected to appeal all the charges against her on Tuesday and argue she is shielded from prosecution by the Constitution.

Alina Habba wants her old job back www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Just as Democrats are finding their footing by focusing on affordability, their differences on Israel are threatening to tear them apart. politi.co/4r3SNPB w/ @NickReisman @lisakashinsky @ShiaKapos

A New Jersey appeals court on Monday upheld the state’s first-of-its-kind rule to keep pollution out of low-income areas and communities of color. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

American cities are scrambling to build bus systems from scratch, overhaul rail lines and ensure trains don’t catch fire as they prepare to welcome soccer fans to next summer’s World Cup. politi.co/4b0rAZ1

TOOOOLL: New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill floated the idea this week that the Garden State could charge New York drivers coming to next summer’s World Cup matches.

Mikie Sherrill’s attorney general pick for New Jersey vows to tackle affordability — and Trump politi.co/4rT7zJX w/ Madison Fernandez & @danieljhan.bsky.social

Sens. @corybooker.com & @andykimnj.bsky.social want to work with the White House to find someone “suitable” to fill a vacancy in the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Andy Kim seeks to topple the Democratic machines in 2027 politi.co/4aaLaS2 w/ @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social & Madison Fernandez

w/ Erica Orden:

www.politico.com/news/2025/12... w/ @sophiacai.bsky.social

Can a socialist mayor and Wall Street coexist? New York is about to find out. politi.co/47Y1PGS

Affordability, affordability, affordability: Democrats’ new winning formula politi.co/47B4Jju

‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’ politi.co/4fHe0tX w/ @mattfriedmannj.bsky.social & Erica Orden

Federal judge will decide whether Trump ally Alina Habba can lead prosecutions in New Jersey politi.co/4fjOdYK w/ @kyledcheney @joshgerstein @MattFriedmanNJ

NEW: A criminal defendant in New Jersey says Alina Habba is acting illegally as U.S. attorney. His basis? Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling tossing criminal charges against Trump. w @ryrivard www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

NEW: The White House says Trump has fired the court-appointed U.S. attorney that NJ judges appointed to succeed Alina Habba. They say the judicial appointee — Leigh Grace — never actually had the job, but just in case, she's fired anyway. w/ @ryrivard.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Updated: Prosecutors asked to delay at least one case — involving a triple homicide — b/c AG Pam Bondi fired the lead prosecutor, according to filing made today by a defense attorney who wants her client released until the government is ready for trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A criminal defendant filed the first of what coudl be many challenges to the authority of Acting U.S. attorney Alina Habba. The matter has been sent to a district judge in PA because all the NJ judges are conflicted out. w/ @ryrivard @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Alina Habba’s authority as New Jersey’s top prosecutor questioned in new legal filing politi.co/4l0TgOT w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social & @joshgerstein

www.politico.com/news/2025/07... from @ryrivard.bsky.social and @kyledcheney.bsky.social

NEW: The Trump administration is making a last ditch series of maneuvers to keep Alina Habba in as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. It might work. w/ @ryrivard www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

The firing of a veteran prosecutor in New Jersey escalates Trump administration’s war with the courts politi.co/4m2TSV4 w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social

Republican governors are joining their Democratic colleagues to question whether the nation’s largest grid operator has its act together at a time of soaring energy prices. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... for @POLITICOPro

Murphy administration exempts $1B Netflix studio from sea-level rise rule subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

New Jersey makes major changes to controversial sea level rise rule Now, instead of preparing the state’s 130 miles of coastline for 5 feet of sea level rise, the rules will only require developers to plan for 4 feet subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Democrats from Illinois to New Jersey have a new enemy — and most voters have probably never heard of it. Customers across a fifth of the country are about to see dramatically higher utility bills thanks in part to PJM. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

And this published even before China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs.

he county line was an only-in-Jersey phenomenon that faced a reckoning following the 2023 indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez. But it became a strange vestige of Tammany Hall-era machine politics that Woodrow Wilson tried to snuff out over a century ago. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

A look at the move to remove the late Robert Byrd’s statue from the WV statehouse www.politico.com/newsletters/...

STORYTIME FOR DONALD: Call it congestion trolling. politi.co/4bltQrV

New Jersey’s budget could need a ‘break the glass’ strategy if Trump makes cuts politi.co/43ea6oe w/ @danieljhan.bsky.social

E. Jean Carroll lawyer takes another swing at Trump, this time over NYC tolls politi.co/3D2TGUW w/ @eorden.bsky.social

President Trump: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” Gov. Hochul: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king...We’ll see you in court.” politi.co/4gMOK4C w/ Nick Reisman

Another New York, New Jersey feud: Wildfires politi.co/41e5HA5 w/ Marie J. French

New Jersey power bills set to skyrocket this summer subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

New York’s business boosters push Trump to keep Manhattan tolls w/ Nick Reisman politi.co/42PgC4u

As Trump steamrolls Washington, courts flex their power to slow him down politi.co/4gyw7RL by @kyledcheney.bsky.social

Note to Our Readers POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Phil Murphy hands Republicans an attack line with immigrant housing gaffe politi.co/42IkcNO w/ @danieljhan.bsky.social

Trump’s plan to kill offshore wind is paying off politi.co/4jIVjaU w/ Marie J. French

Judge sentences former Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

A federal judge will sentence former Sen. Bob Menendez on Wednesday for selling his office — an extraordinary fall even for a politician from a state as notoriously transactional as New Jersey. politi.co/3Ea8Bgg

‘This was not the enemy’: White House says New Jersey drones were authorized politi.co/3WDqISp

Damning new report on Trenton water helps prompt reckoning for troubled system subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...