Federal and state legislators who vote on judicial nominees should indeed ask hard questions of nominees, white-collar defense attorney Joel Cohen writes. Unquestionably, though, those tough questions are often irrelevant to the decisions that the judiciary committee members will make.
April 04, 2023 at 11:06 AM
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We’re in a period of recovery (sort of) from the contentious struggle over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination of Justice Hector LaSalle for chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals earlier this year.
It certainly wasn’t a mere dustup in the Senate’s hearing on the nomination. The result was, pretty much, foreordained. In the view of many (this writer included), the hearing was little more than a formality. One might even say a joke.
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