"Gov. Chris Christie is asking a state judge to dismiss a flurry of lawsuits challenging a budget veto that reduced funding for public worker pensions from a once-promised $2.25 billion to $681 million.... In an ironic twist, the Christie administration's 77-page legal brief repeatedly disavows a pension overhaul the governor helped design and signed into law during his first term -- what Christie once hailed as the cornerstone of his plan to repair New Jersey's crumbling pension system."  MORE >>