NY's top court, a purged voter file and a constitutional question

Hey, it’s Dan. We made it to the end of the week. Give yourself a pat on the back.

In today’s CapCon: When New York’s first nonbinary lawmakers take office next year, they may be surprised to find they won’t have a gender-neutral bathroom to use at the state Capitol.

That was made painfully apparent when a transgender student named Jack walked (literally) a mile during a visit to Albany trying to find one. Here’s Jack’s story and how the state Office of General Services responded.

Then: New York’s top court will get a new judge next year. That judge will be chosen from a list compiled by the state’s judicial screening panel. But a newly appointed member of that panel purged his party registration shortly before assuming that position.

Here’s why that matters, including the constitutional questions it could raise, per reporter Timothy Fanning.

Later: New York City had more heat-stress fatalities last year than the prior four years combined. The state doesn’t track that kind of data, including demographics of who’s often impacted. In Bills Passed But Pending, we look at how that could change.

Plus: In This Week in New York History, we have the first baseball game that charged admission, the first cross-country road trip, and one of New York’s first female members of Congress.

Names in today’s CapCon: David Siffert, Illapa Sairitupac, Kathy Hochul, John Balet, Judith Enck, Angelica Kang, Rowan Wilson, Jenny Rivera, Bruce Blakeman, Liz Fine, Cynthia Nixon, Eugene M. Fahey, Joshua Silber, Amy Paulin, Gustavo Rivera, Bella Abzug, Jose Cuervo