State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says Hector LaSalle is. not getting confirmed as chief judge no matter how the courts handle a newly filed lawsuit.
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But Stewart-Cousins did not rule out holding a floor vote on LaSalle to end the ongoing stand-off with the governor over the nomination, even while promising Hochul, “This nominee does not have the votes,” in a 63-member legislative chamber dominated by 42 Democrats. The case hinges in part on whether Palumbo can prove that his individual rights as a senator were violated because the state Constitution says the “Senate” must vote on judicial nominees.
“I’ve said all along that it’s very important for this judge’s nomination to go to the floor of the Senate. And obviously, the Senator on his own decided that the best way that can happen is to have it be in the court. So we’re going to wait now and see what the courts decide,” she told The Post in Manhattan on Sunday.
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