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Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican, was convicted of using his influence to get his adult son jobs and money. Ex-NY Senate Leader Dean Skelos, son guilty of corruption charges again Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican, was convicted of using his influence to get his adult son jobs and money.
Anticipating renewed fights over abortion, some governors and state lawmakers already are searching for ways to enhance or dismantle the right in their constitutions and laws. President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised the possibility that a conservative court majority could weaken or overturn the 1973 Roe v.
Anticipating renewed fights over abortion, some governors and state lawmakers already are looking for ways to enhance or dismantle the right in their own constitutions and laws. President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised both fears and hopes that a conservative court majority could weaken or overturn the 1973 Roe v.
I don't know if former Sex & the City star Cynthia Nixon has convinced many people to vote for her but the media still loves to cover her campaign. As the summer wears on and the days until the primary election dwindle, Nixon seems to have grown increasingly desperate.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has urged Republican state lawmakers to reconsider their opposition to legislation codifying abortion rights in New York state law. Cuomo says Monday that the GOP-led Senate should immediately reconvene to pass the measure in light of a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ahead of the planned announcement of President Trump's Supreme Court nomination, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to protect abortion and contraceptive coverage in the state. Since Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, giving Trump the ability to select his second Supreme Court justice in his first term as president, Democrats have publicly expressed concern that the nation's highest court, with the addition of a conservative judge, could overturn Roe v.
In this June 16, 2017, file photo, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks in Washington on race in America and his decision to take down Confederate monuments in his city. FILE - In this June 16, 2017, file photo, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks in Washington on race in America and his decision to take down Confederate monuments in his city.
In a letter to federal agencies, Murphy and five other governors demand details about the welfare of more than 2,000 children separated at the border. Murphy demands details on how children separated at border will be reunited with parents In a letter to federal agencies, Murphy and five other governors demand details about the welfare of more than 2,000 children separated at the border.
President Donald Trump is set to announce his choice for a new Supreme Court justice, which he's said could eventually result in the reversal of the abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.
If fired-up young and minority progressives are set to affect the state Democratic primaries, the polls could be the last to show it. But in New York, where the electorate is charged up in the President Trump era and 400,000 new Democrats have registered since 2014, it could make the job even tougher, forcing both public and private pollsters to engage in new models in hopes of getting it right.
Cynthia Nixon spoke last at The Working Family Party State Convention, held Saturday at The First Corinthian Baptist Church, Harlem, NY. The following is an expanded version of the second item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's print editions: The Working Families Party has hired people to help circulate designation petitions to get actress and activist Cynthia Nixon on the Sept.
Gov. Cuomo is in step with city Public Advocate Letitia James at the Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Ave. last month, and now he's firmly in step with her run for state attorney general. Gov. Cuomo next week will be headlining a big-money fund-raiser for New York City Public Advocate Letitia James' attorney general campaign.
New York's union leaders are condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the right of a worker to not pay union dues. But a newly passed state law might mitigate the effects of Janus v.
Today would have been marriage equality pioneer Edie Windsor's 89th birthday - and it's Edie Windsor Day in New York State, as proclaimed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "Edie was an iconic New Yorker who shaped history and taught us that love always wins," Cuomo said in a press release.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.>> The governors of multiple East Coast states have announced that they will not deploy National Guard resources near the U.S.-Mexico border, a largely symbolic but politically significant rejection of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that has resulted in children being separated from their families. Gov. John Carney rejected the White House's request to send National Guard troops to the United States' southwest border.
An undocumented immigrant family from Guatemala talks to a volunteer after their arrival to Announciation House, an organisation that provides shelter to immigrants and refugees, in El Paso, U.S. January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo /File Photo Joining a chorus of critics as diverse as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and former First Ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray denounced President Donald Trump's immigration policy, which has resulted in 2,000 kids being forcibly separated from their families - including a little girl with Down's syndrome whose father is a legal U.S. resident.
These days, saying that another corruption trial involving a senior New York Democrat is underway has become something of a dog-bites-man story. Still, it's worth pausing to note that former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros was arraigned in federal court in Manhattan on Friday and his trial is getting underway.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint plan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. less Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint ... more Stephanie Miner, the former Syracuse mayor and one-time ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced that she's mounting an independent bid for governor. "The price of politics as usual and the cost of corruption is weighing us all down.
It's been a fun and sometimes wild ride in the New York gubernatorial Democratic primary this spring. Upstart Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon got a lot of people excited with her challenge to the state's scandal-prone governor, Andrew Cuomo.
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon unveiled Wednesday an ambitious and expensive education plan packed with spending on programs long desired by progressives, including free college tuition for illegal immigrants. The platform , which bears the pithy hashtag slogan #SchoolsNotJails, calls for spending $7.37 billion on a wide range of K-12 and higher education initiatives.