NJ Senate will reconvene to confirm state supreme court nominee John Jay Hoffman

Though the summer recess for the New Jersey Legislature has barely begun, due to the pending nomination of a new Supreme Court justice, the state Senate may return to Trenton. Senate President Nick Scutari said he does plan to call his colleagues will be back and he wants to announce it “sooner rather than later” so people can plan around it. “We’re negotiating a date that’s convenient with the Republican side and with my members because it’s the middle of the summer, but we’re going to come back,” Scutari said...