Update: GOP Sues NYC Over Alien-Voting Law
A lifeline to save the president and his party from their more extreme immigration policies
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 12, 2022
In a January 11 post, I analyzed a bill passed by the New York City Council (Int. 1867-2020A) allowing legal immigrants and employment-authorized aliens to vote in municipal elections in the city. It became law when the new mayor of the city, Eric Adams (D), returned it to the council unsigned. To update, GOP officials in the Empire State have now filed suit in state court to block that law’s implementation.
The New York Complaint. That complaint was filed in the New York State Supreme Court in Staten Island.
Staten Island (technically Richmond County) is the most Republican-leaning of NYC’s five boroughs. In the November 2021 election for borough president there, for example, Vito Fossella (R) won with 62 percent of the votes cast, and Republicans Paul Marrone and Ronald Castorina cruised to victory for the New York Supreme Court by healthy margins over their Democratic challengers.
Speaking of, the state’s 62 supreme courts are not like the federal one, which is the nation’s court of last resort. Rather, in New York, supreme courts are courts of general jurisdiction and serve as the highest trial courts there.
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