New York’s Democrats are the gifts that keep on giving — unless you live here.
Democrat-appointed judges at the New York Court of Appeals, the seven-member highest court in the state, have held a majority on the court since 2015, and the last Republican appointee, Eugene Pigott Jr., retired in 2016 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70. The court now comprises five judges appointed by Andrew Cuomo, one appointed in 2022 by Kathy Hochul, and one vacancy that Hochul is trying to fill. Two of the Cuomo appointees, Anthony Cannataro (a career jurist) and Madeline Singas (a former prosecutor), both Democrats, were appointed to the court in the spring of 2021 at a time when Cuomo was already facing impeachment — and they would have sat as jurors judging Cuomo under the state constitutional process for impeachment trials. Cuomo rammed them through the state senate, ignoring the statutory deadline for submitting his nominations.
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