A hearing will be held today in Albany on Gov. Hochul's controversial pick for the state's top judge. ZinniaDee_TV has more:
If approved by lawmakers, Hector LaSalle would become the first Latino to be chief judge on the state Court of Appeals. , who say LaSalle has a history of cases that show he's the wrong person for the job.
But progressives in the State Senate, which must approve the nomination, are set against the former prosecutor, saying they want someone who is more of a civil rights activist. Ahead of Wednesday's public hearing, civil rights and labor leaders plan to call for LaSalle's nomination to be withdrawn. Activists and lawmakers point to a small number of the thousands of cases he has been associated with as the chief judge of the Appellate Division in Brooklyn, saying he's too conservative on the issues of labor, abortion rights and due process.
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