Governor Kathy Hochul this week was forced to fight against a strange collision of the law and order, criminal justice and government separation of powers. She faced difficult decisions and had difficult words to say about a wide range of people – a president, a mayor and correction agents – and what is legal and what is moral.
She called to take care of some of the governor’s powers. She signed a decree Activate more than 3,500 members of the National Guard Ensuring security in dozens of state prisons where the correction guards continue to strike and protest against safer working conditions. She did not chop words on workers’ actions, calling them “illegal”, “illegal”, “disruptors” and “unauthorized”.
Then she answered questions about His constitutional power to withdraw the mayor of New York Eric Adams After the Ministry of Justice ordered the main federal prosecutor of Manhattan to suppress the accusations of corruption against Adams and allegations that he reached a “counterpart” with the Trump administration to have them rejected. A governor depositing an elected official is rare in the history of New York.
Then there was his argument for state sovereignty in battle with President Donald Trump The decision of his administration to cancel the approval of the New York congestion pricing program, What she says “undermines the duly elected laws of our state”. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed a complaint before the Manhattan Federal Court, arguing that the decision of the US transport to cancel the toll program comes “in open contempt for a multitude of federal laws and regulations”.
Power, however, can have a restraint. Despite a torrent of calls for democratic legislators of various levels – including his own Lieutenant -Governor – calling Adams to resign or ask Hochul to use her authority to withdraw him, on Thursday, she did neither the front page she did nor the other. With an election of mayor this year and a probable primary competition a few months old, Hochul said that she would recover, at least for the moment, from the democratic process and let the voters decide the fate of Adams.
The power of exercise is also delivered with the power delegation. In response to prison strikes, the Department of Correctional Services and Community Supervision temporarily suspended the parts of the Act on the judgment, which limits the holding of people in prison to isolation for punishment, including a repeal is one of the requirements of correction agents protests. It would be a work for the state legislature. The senator of the republican state Rob Rolison, member of crime classification, victims of crimes and the Correctional Services Committee, Tell Spectrum News 1 He should be under discussion, although the president of the Correction Committee of the Erik Dilan Assembly, a Democrat, said there is no majority support to change the law at the moment.
The addition of complications is that these demonstrations coincide with the fallout from the accusations of murder of Thursday against six correction agents linked to the death of the prisoner Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility. Their actions have been condemned by hochul and legislative leaders, and prompt Lawmakers to work on a series of prings they want to pass this session, a continuation of state democrats’ yearslong criminal justice agenda, a large part of which is a catalyst for the The prison strikes first.
While not withdrawing the mayor Adams herself, Hochul also relying on the legislators, offering legislation which would include the continuation of “railings” to restore confidence among the residents of New York, in particular by creating a new Post of Special Inspector General for New York Affairs in the office of the office of the office office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office office of Office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the office of the inspector general of the state. This would require the legislative approval of the municipal council and the state.