ALBANY—Judge Thomas McNamara says he’d rather not get involved in a leadership dispute embroiling the New York State Senate, but will decide officially whether to hear the case on Monday.
“There are three co-equal branches of government,” he just said in Supreme Court after conferencing with attorneys for Republicans and Democrats over a suit Read More
TROY—A judge has refused to sign a temporary restraining order preventing State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who claimed to have been elected president pro tempore of the State Senate in a coup Monday that has paralyzed state government, from discharging that office.
However, the judge did reschedule a hearing on the merits of Read More
TROY—A judge has refused to sign a temporary restraining order preventing State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who claimed to have been elected president pro tempore of the State Senate in a coup Monday that has paralyzed state government, from discharging that office.
However, the judge did reschedule a hearing on the merits of Monday’s Read More
ALBANY—It’s rapidly becoming statistically impossible for Assemblyman Jim Tedisco to win a seat in Congress. My figures are inexact—the calculations here are based on both official Board of Elections numbers, and on conversations with election officials and both campaigns—but the math looks pretty conclusive. Here’s what I’ve come up with: On Election Night, Democrat Scott Read More
ALBANY—It's rapidly becoming statistically impossible for Assemblyman Jim Tedisco to win a seat in Congress.
My figures are inexact—the calculations here are based on both official Board of Elections numbers, and on conversations with election officials and both campaigns—but the math looks pretty conclusive.
Here's what I've come up with:
On Election Read More
POUGHKEEPSIE—Attorneys for Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco filed two memoranda of law in the ongoing legal wrangling over absentee ballots in his Congressional race against Democrat Scott Murphy.
Tedisco's lawyers moved to "renew and reargue" a ruling issued last week by Judge James Brands that declared that objections lodged against absentee ballots on the Read More
POUGHKEEPSIE—Attorneys for Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco filed two memoranda of law in the ongoing legal wrangling over absentee ballots in his Congressional race against Democrat Scott Murphy.
Tedisco’s lawyers moved to “renew and reargue” a ruling issued last week by Judge James Brands that declared that objections lodged against absentee ballots on the basis Read More
ALBANY—Democrats are accusing Republicans of walking away from the counting table in Dutchess County with the absentee ballots from three towns still unopened, thereby stalling a recount of the election between Scott Murphy and Jim Tedisco for Kirsten Gillibrand’s open House seat.
One of the Republicans charged with adjudicating ballot objections took the day Read More
ALBANY—Democrats are accusing Republicans of walking away from the counting table in Dutchess County with the absentee ballots from three towns still unopened, thereby stalling a recount of the election between Scott Murphy and Jim Tedisco for Kirsten Gillibrand's open House seat.
One of the Republicans charged with adjudicating ballot objections took the day Read More
POUGHKEEPSIE—There are more than 1,200 absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand that will not be opened until next Monday, an attorney representing Democrat Scott Murphy said, when a Supreme Court judge will gather lawyers from both sides together and begin the process of sorting through them.
"We expect that number may Read More
