Hochul’s Pick for Chief Judge: The Commission’s List and LaSalle’s Record (Part 1)

Let me start by repeating that it is a disgrace that three sitting members of the Court of Appeals were excluded from the list of candidates for Chief Judge. Those three–Jenny Rivera, Rowan Wilson, and Shirley Troutman–were the Judges whose voting records have been more philosophically liberal than the others on the Court. It’s hard to believe that the nominating commission that chose the seven