Today on TAP: Why would Trump pardon Eric Adams or Bob Menendez?
Bob Menendez
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The Supreme Court Blesses a Form of Bribery
The ruling can be understood only as a policy preference.
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Bob Menendez and Biden’s Cuba Policy
With the ultra-hawkish senator disgraced, what’s stopping Biden from resuming normalization of relations with Cuba?
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End of the Line for the New Jersey Machine?
A primary election for Rep. Rob Menendez Jr., son of the indicted senator, will test the power of party bosses in the Garden State.
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This Week on ‘Ask the Supremes’: Do Menendez and Cuellar Have Congressional Immunity?
Today on TAP: If there’s presidential immunity, why not congressional?
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Democrats Indulge Cuellar’s Corruption
Today on TAP: Almost nobody has spoken out on the bribery scandal afflicting their party. That makes it harder to draw contrasts with Trump.
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One More Way the Supreme Court Has Legalized Corruption
Disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez is pretending to ‘run’ for re-election because that allows him to tap his campaign account for legal defense.
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The Machine Crumbles
Andy Kim has not only pulled off a major upset. He may have transformed the political culture of an entire state.
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Andy Kim vs. the Machine
Today on TAP: Kim files suit against the ‘unjust and undemocratic’ New Jersey county line, while winning Democratic convention votes to cut into Tammy Murphy’s advantage.
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Trading Hard Corruption for Soft Corruption
New Jersey’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary, likely the end of the road for twice-indicted Robert Menendez, will be shaped by similarly distasteful machine politics.