Gov. Phil Murphy has requested the resignations of all the gubernatorial appointees to the troubled New Jersey Economic Development Authority, effective immediately, NJ Advance Media has learned.

The Trenton-based authority has been under siege in recent months, since a scathing audit by the state comptroller was publicly released in January. The report criticized the EDA’s oversight of a program it said had handed out billions in tax credit incentives with scant oversight.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a case that sought to overturn a New Jersey law banning conversion therapy — a medically discredited practice of attempting to change a child’s sexual orientation from gay to straight.

That means the New Jersey ban will remain.

Licensed therapists in New Jersey have been prohibited since 2013 from engaging in reparative or conversion therapy for minors.

Currently, there is an internal inquiry of the hiring practices and payroll management at the Schools Development Authority, the agency still tasked with upgrading schools in our poorest communities despite its legacy of Jersey-caliber depravity.

There is also a “review” of hiring protocols at the SDA and other state authorities, by order of Governor Murphy.

Plus, various legislative panels are looking into the SDA’s eight-month makeover under the merry murderess of meritocracy, CEO Lizette Delgado-Polanco.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed a bill into law that’s expected to eliminate some of the obstacles in New Jersey that force many people to forgo mental health care or go broke paying the bills.

The new law is intended to close the loopholes that have allowed managed care companies to limit mental health treatment and violate the intent of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

The landmark, bipartisan law required insurance companies to provide equal coverage for mental illnesses in the same way they cover physical ailments and diseases.

Former Superior Court Judge Carolyn Murray speaks to reporters at a Trenton press conference where Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Murray would lead a new unit devoted to reviewing wrongful conviction claims.

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When prosecutors dropped charges against Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee last year, it had been nearly a quarter-century since the murder of a Paterson video store clerk for which the pair were wrongly convicted.

Two men who professed innocence were now free — but the case had long gone cold, leaving the victim’s family without answers.

Private companies doing business with the state of New Jersey and local governments donated $9 million last year to political organizations and political candidates, according to a new report by the state Election Law Enforcement Commission.

Roughly 1,900 companies held public contracts worth $9.8 billion in 2018, ELEC said. Only firms with at least $50,000 in public contracts have to report their political contributions.

They weren’t as generous in 2018 as they were in 2017, when the governor’s race topped the ballot. But candidates for federal office and federal political action committees drew $763,000 in contributions from contractors, though the majority of that money went to a committee funding candidates outside of the Garden State, according to ELEC’s analysis.

WASHINGTON — A resolution introduced Tuesday by New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski “rejects the hateful propaganda of white supremacist terrorists” and “condemns political leaders who legitimize white supremacist ideology."

That includes President Donald Trump, said the first-year Democrat and former assistant U.S. secretary of state.

“We’ve always had Nazis. We always will,” Malinowski, D-7th Dist., said at a Capitol Hill press conference. “We’ve never had to question whether the president of the United States stands on their way of thinking. We’ve never had these people echoing the words of the president of the United States before.”