A federal judge on Tuesday voided the New Jersey Supreme Court’s upholding of a state constitutional residency requirement for Assembly election candidates that he had found invalid 10 years ago.
“[T]he New Jersey Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the one-year durational residency requirement in the face of this Court’s 2001 ruling enjoining its enforcement amounts to an improper collateral attack,” U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise said in Robertson v. Bartels, 01-0204.
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