DOJ Says New Jersey Veterans’ Care During Pandemic ‘Systematically Violated’ Constitution

The residents of two state-run veterans’ homes in New Jersey had their Fourteenth Amendment rights “systematically violated” by the state, according to the Department of Justice.

New Jersey Army National Guard combat medics enter the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, N.J., April 9, 2020. Mark C. Olsen/New Jersey National Guard

The residents of two state-run veterans’ homes in New Jersey had their Fourteenth Amendment rights “systematically violated” by the state, according to the Department of Justice.

The department, in a Sept. 7 report, said it had found “reasonable cause to believe” that the state failed to provide adequate care to residents of the Menlo Park and Paramus Veterans Memorial Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and that those failures are ongoing.