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Hochul says budget won't happen unless changes made to legal discovery process
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday she will not sign off on any state budget without a change to discovery rules in criminal ...
Hochul won’t budge on policy asks in NY spending plan — as lawmakers bolt from Albany for break: ‘Not going to compromise’
Gov. Kathy Hochul defended blowing a state budget deadline Thursday, saying she’s not budging on her policy demands – as ...
Public defenders, DAs and Governor Hochul debate Discovery Reform past budget deadline
Criminal justice reform is once again holding up New York State's budget, as the State's spending will likely be at least two ...
Hochul willing to hold up NY budget ‘as long as it takes’ to pass discovery law changes, involuntary commitment: aide
She’s in for the long haul. Gov. Kathy Hochul is willing to hold up the state’s spending plan “as long as it takes” to get ...
NYC district attorneys push for Hochul's pretrial discovery tweaks
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Bronx County District Attorney Darcel Clark told reporters Monday they remain ...
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie makes bombshell bid to reduce Gov. Hochul’s power in NY budget negotiations
It’s Heastie versus Hochul. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to war with Gov. Kathy Hochul, pushing a bombshell ...
City & State New York23h
Forget King Andrew. Queen Kathy has arrived.
As budget negotiations grow more contentious, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the Legislature needs leadership from an “aggressive ...
With backing of 14 Staten Island civic groups, D.A. calls for change to evidence discovery laws
Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon penned a letter to state and city officials voicing collective support.
FingerLakes1.com1d
Hochul meets with domestic violence survivors, pledges to fix discovery laws
Governor Kathy Hochul met with domestic violence survivors in Albany this week, promising to fight for changes to New York’s ...
NYC DAs make case for discovery reform in Albany as lefties dig in ‘for the long haul’
The push by the DA’s to change the 2019 discovery law changes, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, has been identified by ...
Hochul's Plan to Ease Discovery Rules Delays NY Budget Talks
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s effort to get New York’s $252 billion budget sewn up has been thwarted by pushback to her plan for ...
City Journal2d
Why Won’t Lawmakers Fix New York’s Catastrophic Discovery Reform?
New York is more than a week into its new fiscal year, and Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature have yet to agree on a budget. Instead, they are stuck in closed-door negotiations over ...