The Democrat-led NY state Senate is looking to push through a sudden full-chamber vote Wednesday on Gov. Hochul’s nomination of Justice LaSalle.
by Republican members, and tacitly supported by Hochul, to force a vote, sources said.
Stewart-Cousins appears, once-again, to be trying to stack the deck against LaSalle to sink Hochul’s nomination of the centrist Democrat, because two of his supporters — Sen. Luis Sepulveda and Sen. Kevin Thomas — won’t be present, a source familiar with the matter said. Previously the Senate Judiciary committee added anti-LaSalle members to its ranks to ensure his nomination would not be passed in committee.
“The Senate is panicking. They know they screwed up. They know they’re gonna lose the lawsuit,” the source said. “So, now they’re trying to force a vote when two yes votes are out of Albany. The fix is in.” State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is looking to push through a sudden full-chamber vote on the nomination of Justice Hector LaSalle.Sepulveda’s office confirmed Wednesday morning that he won’t be in Albany due to a family health emergency.The Senate is composed of 63 members — 42 Democrats and 21 Republicans — but most haven’t publicly taken a position on LaSalle.
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