“Where are the checks and balances aka other branches of government?”
There are no checks and balances once you start ruling via dictat. Now it’s one dictator vs another dictator, and who wins that type of confrontation is a question of who is willing to deploy brute force most ruthlessly.
You got my point.
No it's not.
Blakeman is simply telling his police force not to enforce Hochul's illegal autocratic orders.