Court To Consider Challenge to Pay Increase Making New York Governor’s Salary the Highest in the Country
A watchdog group, the Government Justice Center, argues that the retroactive raise violated New York’s constitution.
A legal challenge to a pay raise for New York’s governor and lieutenant governor, which was approved by the legislature in the dead of night, is going to court over concerns that it violated the state’s constitution by taking effect during their elected term.
In the early hours of an April morning in 2019, lawmakers at Albany adopted a resolution to raise the salary of the governor and lieutenant governor. The state Senate approved the measure after 1 a.m., and the Assembly approved it a few hours later. The legislature also made the increase retroactive to January 1 of that year, the beginning of Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Hochul’s terms.
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