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Politics in New Jersey has gone off the rails — even by New Jersey standards
New Jersey politics have a reputation for being wild. But this? This is something else. Even by our standards, what’s going on in the Garden State these days is head-spinning. Earth-shattering, in fact. A sitting U.S. senator, Robert Menendez, is on trial …