New Jersey's democratic laboratory cooks up erosion to preserve power of political machines

New Jersey's democratic laboratory cooks up erosion to preserve power of political machines

New Jersey now stands as a laboratory for democratic erosion — not through violent upheaval but through legal minutiae: higher fences for challengers, thicker curtains for donors, and narrower corridors for public oversight. Beneath a veneer of electoral modernization and transparency, Governor Phil Murphy and state lawmakers have engineered a sweeping transformation of New Jersey’sContinue reading "New Jersey’s democratic laboratory cooks up er…