The former Assistant U.S. Attorney and current Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP partner, who will also be the state Supreme Court's youngest justice, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Aug. 27.

In June, the governor said he would support the measure, which requires developments like power and sewage plants, landfills, and waste disposal sites to consider their environmental impact on “overburdened communities” in the area.

To date, the virus has infected more than 190,000 residents and claimed nearly 15,000 lives in the state.

Due to the lapse in $600 pandemic relief payments from Washington, the state paid out $316 million for the week ending Aug. 22 – compared to $1 billion for the week ending June 6 – as the Murphy administration applies for FEMA's $300 assistance plan and pushes for more COVID relief.

According to New Jersey Commissioner for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development Robert Asaro-Angelo, the state’s application to participate with the program will likely be submitted and approved in a matter of days, but checks could take much longer to come through.

Indoor operations will be allowed to restart operations at 25 percent capacity and with required face coverings.

“We have made deep cuts and found necessary economies where we need to,” the governor said. “Some spending cuts are absolutely necessary in the face of this crisis, and, yes, some of them will hurt.”

After the governor laid out his revised $32.4 billion spending plan for the 2021 Fiscal Year, the leaders of both the state Senate and Assembly weren't ready to dismiss any of its proposed new taxes and fees, which add up to $860 million, saying "nothing's off the table yet."

According to Gov. Phil Murphy, most of the funding has either been spent or earmarked, but Republican lawmakers have been critical of the governor for not spending the rest of it, or at least disclosing where that money would go.

Millionaire's tax, increased fees on cigarette purchases, a proposal to make the 2.5 percent corporate business surtax permanent, and more.

“The hole that we are predicting for revenues is now $5.6 billion,” State Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio said in a press briefing Monday evening. “We couldn’t go up to the higher amount unless we felt that the revenues declined even further.”

The $32 billion spending plan calls for one of the largest in recent history: $2.2 billion.