'Disgracing Himself': Hakeem Jeffries Stumps for Anti-Abortion Judge

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Progressives charge that Hector D. LaSalle is too conservative, anti-abortion, anti-labor and anti-due process and his appointment would tilt the state’s top court further to the right.

LaSalle's record on abortion and labor rights as reasons that he was "potentially the worst of the seven nominees" the governor chose between.

Progressives and labor leaders see the pick as a betrayal after many within their ranks worked to deliver vital last-minute votes to Hochul during the final frantic days of last year’s election. Some reluctant allies are regretting their decision. In 2017, LaSalle ruled that a so-called "crisis pregnancy center"—where people are pressured into carrying unwanted pregnancies instead of obtaining abortion care—should be shielded from the state attorney general's investigation into whether the facility was practicing medicine without a license.

Although Hochul claimed she was planning to nominate a chief justice who would help "defend against [the U.S.] Supreme Court's rapid retreat from precedent and continue our march toward progress," if LaSalle is confirmed by the state Senate to a 14-year term, he "would entrench a reactionary majority that would fight tooth and nail against the priorities of New York progressives," wrote Sammon and Stern.

 

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Anyone who's suprised that Jeffries would do this hasn't been paying attention. He's just another corporate Dem trained by Nancy Pelosi. He knows who he really works for

C’mon, Man!

kaefair He is not disgraced. He is another narcissist. He does not give a damn what anyone thinks. He is a proud conservative, Wall Street and his agenda is power. Think Cuomo.

EricShapiro3 Jeffries is a disgrace.

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