The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a dispute between New York and New Jersey over the future of a port watchdog agency that was created 70 years ago to combat organized crime.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said allowing New Jersey to withdraw would cause “immediate and irreparable harm to New York” and lead to increased crime, higher prices on goods and racial inequities in who is hired at the ports.
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