Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who was sworn in this week as president of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, compared an effort by state lawmakers to empower a board to investigate prosecutorial conduct to attempts by national Republicans to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Soares urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto the bill, calling it “the most misguided piece of legislation that we have ever seen proposed by the legislature,” in an interview.