The governor faces legislative resistance to a budget prosal that would allow judges to jail people accused of bail-eligible offenses they believe endanger public safety or commit other crimes.
ALBANY — Democrats remain deadlocked on overhauling bail laws amid rising crime, but Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested Friday she is gaining ground despite resistance from the state Senate and Assembly to make it easier to jail people ahead of their trials.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed making it easier for judges to jail criminal defendants ahead of their trials.her plan could effectively mean the end of New York’s longstanding law that limits judges to using bail as a way to ensure criminal defendants, who are officially innocent until proven guilty, show up to court., has held up budget talks on other issues, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins told reporters Thursday.
“However, that does not mean that they’re not literally round-the-clock tables, as they call them, where the staff was getting together, talking about our climate initiatives, our education, health care, and certainly the finances are part of that,” she added. State Senate Democrats have exactly the 42 members needed to override gubernatorial vetos in the 63-member chamber while the Assembly has a few extra Democratic votes to spare in such a situation.
Public confidence in the criminal justice system is at stake, Hochul said Friday while pushing her plan to loosen restrictions on judges’ ability to lock up the people they deem dangerous.
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