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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 104 stories to New Jersey since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from New Jersey.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In New Jersey
10 storiesFull federal appeals court strikes down New Jersey's 36-year-old assault weapons ban and magazine limits, splitting with every other circuit.
NRA funded and argued the case
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens state election officials with prison unless they screen voter rolls through a database a federal judge has blocked.
Claims 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls
Nine states sue to block Trump administration deals paying wind developers to cancel offshore leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead.
Used lawsuit fund though nobody sued
ICE blocks New Jersey Democrats from speaking with Delaney Hall detainees after a dozen prior tours allowed it, requiring 24-hour written notice.
200 transferred out, 30 in overnight
New Jersey Governor Sherrill says federal officials blocked her from speaking to Delaney Hall detainees during a tightly controlled tour.
Detainees say hunger strike in week 3
Brawl erupts at Newark's Delaney Hall detention center a day after Mayor Baraka pulled city police, with GEO Group guards pepper-spraying protesters.
Public defender moves to dismiss 45 charges
New Jersey Governor Sherrill says ICE is still barring her from Delaney Hall, where detainees report inhumane conditions during an ongoing hunger strike.
New Jersey sues GEO Group in state court after inspectors were allowed into only the food service areas of the Newark migrant jail where detainees report tuberculosis and untreated illness.
Twelfth day of hunger strike and protests
Missing New Jersey Representative Kean introduces a House bill 88 days into an unexplained disappearance, still legislating and trading stocks while neighbors say they have not seen him.
Staff can file bills remotely via VPN
DOJ sues Connecticut over law banning ICE masks and requiring agent ID, after Ninth Circuit struck down similar California rule on Supremacy Clause.
Bans courthouse, school, church arrests
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesCitizens Bank ends lending to ICE detention contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic after months of protests and $300 million in withdrawals.
CoreCivic a client since 2011
A federal judge permanently bars Trump from freezing Gateway tunnel funds he cut to punish Democrats during the shutdown, after New York and New Jersey sued.
Resolution put 1,000 back to work
Seven states sue to block the administration's $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
Move follows repeated administration court losses
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