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Posted on 04/16/2025 7:37:49 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
With New York’s state budget being almost two weeks past due, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’ll continue “to keep up the fight” for New Yorkers.
“Everyone knows what I’m standing for, and I’m not wavering on my belief that we need to make some significant reforms so we can say that this budgeting process is over,” she told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday.
The governor and state lawmakers have been at a standstill over how to spend upwards of $252 billion in a state budget since April 1.
One of the points of contention in the budget process has been over changes to a 2019 discovery law, which required prosecutors to turn over more evidence, and turn it over faster, to defense attorneys.
Defense lawyers say the reforms have ensured that all defendants get access to evidence in their cases in a timely and fair manner, but Hochul said the current law is too restrictive.
“New York’s discovery laws are by far the most progressive in the nation in terms of being, I would say, skewed toward more positive outcomes for the defense,” she said.
“What I am trying to do is make sure that the judge will actually look at what was missing, how much weight that should have against the importance of the case,” the governor added. “Let them make that decision. Let a judge be involved in that.”
Hochul also expressed strong disapproval to the Trump administration’s decision to take away federal funding from Columbia University and Cornell University.
“It’s despicable. Threatening our education institutions because they don’t teach the way they want them to?” she said.
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IF I AM PAYING AN EMPLOYEE-—I WANT THE JOB DONE TO MY STANDARDS & DESIRES.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT & THE BEHAVIOR OF THE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES WHO TAKE FEDERAL $$$$ & THEN ALLOW —OR ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE-—THE ANTI-SEMITISM?????
Woman politicians use the word “fight” ad nauseum. This bitch, Shitlery, Klamata. Do they think they sound tough? Fight for what? How are they fighting? Just a nonsense phrase from idiots. Yeah everybody who looks at Hochul immediately thinks “brawler”.
Hard to fight when you have a notebook in front of your face.
I especially HATE politicians who arrogantly say “We are fighting for you.”
I see Nurse Rachett.
Rumor has it that she is having several 2” GAS pipes (what happened to green?) installed at her places in western NY to heat her swimming pools.
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