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After the Commission on Judicial Nomination released a shortlist of seven potential nominees for the chief judge position, state Senate Judiciary Chair Brad Hoylman-Sigal told City & State he was particularly glad to see that two current Court of…
March 24, 2023
Article at City & State
On Friday, the Commission on Judicial Nomination released a shortlist of seven finalists for the chief judge position. Gov. Hochul now has between 15 and 30 days to select one of the seven candidates to nominate. Once she nominates one of them, the…
Close observers of the chief judge nomination process expect the Commission on Judicial Nomination to release a “shortlist” of seven potential nominees before the end of the month. Under state law, the commission technically has until mid-June to…
March 20, 2023
On Dec. 22, Gov. Kathy Hochul nominated Hector LaSalle to be chief judge of the state Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court. Within days, unions, reproductive rights groups and a number of state senators had announced their opposition to the…
On Tuesday, the state Senate stabbed Gov. Kathy Hochul in the back with a one-house budget that excluded many of her top priorities: bail reform, the charter school cap and suburban housing mandates. Instead, the proposed budget included a number of…
March 15, 2023
On Tuesday, a Suffolk County judge ruled in favor of Republican state Sen. Anthony Palumbo, who had sued the state Senate and a number of Senate Democrats earlier this month.. Palumbo accused the state Senate of violating the state constitution when…
February 22, 2023
The strength of the city’s progressive movement was on display Saturday night at The Astor, a restaurant and bar in northern Astoria that played host to a reelection fundraiser for socialist City Council Member Tiffany Cabán. A few dozen left-leaning…
February 06, 2023
Rep. Ritchie Torres is a member of the House Financial Services Committee who has advocated for comprehensive federal regulation of the cryptocurrency industry. What benefits do you think cryptocurrency can bring to New Yorkers? I have no interest in…
January 25, 2023
John Olsen is the New York state lead for the Blockchain Association, which represents the interests of the cryptocurrency industry. The association has advocated to reform the state’s restrictive virtual currency licensing regime and lobbied…
January 24, 2023
Assembly Member Anna Kelles sponsored the proof-of-work bitcoin mining moratorium bill, which imposed a two-year moratorium on the issuance of new air permits to cryptocurrency mining companies that own fossil fuel-based power plants and requires the…
Assembly Member Clyde Vanel is an outspoken cryptocurrency advocate who personally holds more than 10 different types of cryptocurrency and has introduced multiple bills related to the industry. Last year, he co-sponsored the Cryptocurrency and…
First opened in 1937, the coal-fired power plant outside the village of Dresden in the Finger Lakes region is one of many upstate power plants decommissioned in recent decades due to inefficiency and excessive greenhouse gas emissions. But the plant…
January 23, 2023
Early last year, the cryptocurrency industry was still flying high. A single bitcoin was worth about $40,000, major cryptocurrency companies like Coinbase, FTX and Crypto.com ran ads during the 2022 Super Bowl featuring major celebrities encouraging…
On Wednesday, following a hearing lasting nearly five hours, the state Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-9 to reject Hector LaSalle’s nomination to be chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. As far as Senate leadership is…
January 20, 2023
State Sen. Shelley Mayer is joining the state Senate Judiciary Committee for the 2023-2024 session, her office confirmed to City & State. Mayer is one of 14 Senate Democrats who have publicly announced that they plan to vote not to confirm Hector…
January 06, 2023
The political backlash to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination of Hector LaSalle to be chief judge, and the subsequent backlash to the backlash, has exposed deep divisions within New York’s Latino political community, pitting “Latinos for LaSalle” against…
January 05, 2023
State Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Brad Hoylman said that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pick for chief judge has almost no chance of being confirmed by the Senate, now that 12 Democratic senators have publicly announced that they would vote not to confirm…
December 29, 2022
So many Democrats in the state Senate are planning to vote to reject the nomination of Hector LaSalle as chief judge when it comes before the Senate next month that Gov. Kathy Hochul will need to rely on Republican votes to get him confirmed,…
December 22, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the nomination of Hector LaSalle to be the next chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court on Thursday. LaSalle currently serves as the presiding justice over the appellate division’s Second Department,…
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December 21, 2022
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