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In today’s CapCon:
New York has required judges to retire at age 70 since 1869 but that mandate could be on the chopping block more than a century and a half later.
The financial disclosures of Gov. Kathy Hochul, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and state AG Letitia James were released Friday.
Bills on the Move: A regulatory framework for prediction markets, the packaging reduction bill and the Health Information Privacy Act are moving next week.
The Public Campaign Finance Board is appealing a decision that reversed its rejection of public matching funds for Bruce Blakeman.
New York’s agriculture agency would be required to warn farmers about extreme weather events and help them out under a new bill.
What’s happening at the state Capitol next week.
This Week in New York History: The New York Stock Exchange and the NAACP
Names in today’s CapCon: Jonathan Lippman, Kathy Hochul, Antonio Delgado, Thomas P. DiNapoli, Letitia James, Bruce Blakeman, Rachel May, Tony Simone, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Carl E. Heastie, Richard Ball, Peter Harckham, Joe Addabbo, Liz Kruger, Chris Ryan
(Will Waldron/Times Union)
⚖️ New York’s highest court to consider challenge to New York’s age cap for judges
Judges in New York are required to retire at the end of the year when they turn 70.
That’s mandated regardless of their position. Even judges on the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, have to retire when they reach the age of 70.
That’s what happened in 2015 when then-Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman was forced to retire from the bench.
But that age cap could soon be struck down as unconstitutional 157 years after it was first enacted in New York in 1869.
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