ALBANY – In upholding the unfettered authority of New York governors to fill lieutenant governor vacancies, the state’s highest court also may have blazed a trail that legislators ultimately may use to interject itself into the selection process, lawmakers said yesterday.
By finding the legal grounding for Governor David A. Paterson’s action in Public Officers Law, the Court of Appeals drew a statutory road map for lawmakers to impose legislative confirmation authority over future gubernatorial selections that bypasses the often-unwieldy process of amending the state Constitution, legislators said.
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