In Rebuke to Hochul, State Senate Rejects Nominee for Top Judge
Initially, the full Senate had appeared unlikely to even give the judge a vote, but its leaders reversed course after a lawsuit filed by a Republican demanded a full vote in the chamber.
ALBANY — New York’s Senate rejected Governor Hochul’s nominee to be the state’s chief judge Wednesday, an extraordinary defeat for the state’s top Democrat delivered by legislative leaders in her own party.
The vote rejecting Judge Hector LaSalle as the head of the state Court of Appeals and overseer of New York’s judicial system came after opposition from liberals.
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