A judge has ruled that a commission created last year to enforce ethics rules for New York state’s employees and elected officials is unconstitutional because it is too independent
A commission created last year to enforce ethics rules for New York state’s employees and elected officials violates the state’s constitution because it is too independent, a state judge ruled Monday in a decision that could gut the body’s power to combat corruption and influence-peddling.
But in his decision, New York Supreme Court Justice Thomas Marcelle said the commission’s very independence makes it a problem under the state constitution. The judge said it would require an amendment to the state constitution to give that sort of power to an independent body.“Taking office in the midst of scandal and a crisis in State government, Governor Hochul worked with the Legislature to craft a new, truly independent ethics body that could begin to restore New Yorkers’ faith in their public officials,” Hochul spokesman Avi Small said.
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