Groups want NJ funding for cancer research

Good morning! I’m out today and will return Monday. No one break any news!

Health: Advocates for cancer research are urging state lawmakers to pass a bill that would create a dedicated stream of $10 million in annual funding for research, a push they said they’re making because federal funding in this area has slowed to a trickle. “I see this as an opportunity for a state that holds ourselves up as a beacon of innovation, science, and research. We should know that cancer research cannot operate effectively on year-to-year uncertainty,” said Quinton Law, government relations director for the American Cancer Society’s political advocacy arm.

Courts: New Jersey joined a group of mostly Dem-led states Thursday in suing the Trump administration over its demands for private data of commercial driver’s license holders. The administration has no legal right to the information, and only wants it for immigration enforcement purposes, the lawsuit alleges. “New Jersey has one of the strongest data privacy laws in the country, and we will not allow the Trump Administration to illegally misuse the private information of our residents,” New Jersey Attorney General Jen Davenport said in a statement. The Trump administration has made a push to strip noncitizens of commercial driver’s licenses.

Shore: Watch out, Monmouth County, the New York Post has discovered Rumson.

Immigration: Via Kevin Hardy, “Democratic lawmakers proposed nearly 250 bills in state capitols this year seeking to limit federal immigration efforts as they sought to push back against what they view as federal government overreach.”

ICE: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed something Tuesday night we’ve been hearing for about a week now, that a third man held at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall died under mysterious circumstances. ICE identified the man as Jose Chajon-Raxon from Guatemala, saying he was detained on July 18, was sent to University Hospital in Newark the next day after “experiencing seizure-like activity,” and was released from custody on July 22. The agency did not say when he died.