I can think of no greater or more satisfying Christmas present than left-wing state senators and their allies heads exploding over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle to be New York’s next Chief Judge of the Court of the Appeals.
From the moment former Chief Judge DiFiore announced her retirement, the left sought to turn filling her vacancy on the Court of Appeals into an ideological battleground. Led by Deputy Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, progressives denounced DiFiore and her so-called four-judge “conservative bloc.”
They vowed to remake the court and promised to block any nominee who didn’t possess the right progressive bona fides. Gianaris & Co. didn’t want any moderate jurists who didn’t drink the democratic socialist/woke/defund the police Kool-Aid. And they certainly didn’t want anyone who was a former prosecutor and fought for crime victims.
Brooklyn state Senator Julia Salazar — whose biographical fakeries rival those of Rep-elect George Santos — told New York Focus that she was “[d]eeply disappointed in the Governor’s nomination of someone with a clear anti-union, fundamentally conservative record.”
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