Wilson's appearance comes weeks after the governor’s first choice to lead the state’s sprawling court system, Hector LaSalle, was shot down by Senate Democrats in an unprecedented rejection.
The process for considering a chief judge is moving faster with liberal Rowan Wilson than it did while progressives were resisting the centrist pick previously backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins took an oath to support the New York State Constitution. Maybe she has a different idea of what “support” means than we do, but last year her Democratic chamber (along with the Democratic Assembly) passed an extreme gerrymandered redistricting map that violated the Constitution.
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