I was shocked when I learned that 46 law professors had signed a letter accusing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nominee as chief judge of New York State of an “activist Conservative jurisprudence” and of having “a cavalier attitude toward reproductive rights, hostility to organized labor, and a worrying insensitivity to due process.”
Having served as president of the Legal Aid Society, the first chair of Federal Defenders of New York and for decades as a director of nonprofits providing housing, drug treatment, and other social services, I am no friend of activist conservative jurisprudence.
