{"id":1786466,"date":"2022-12-25T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786466"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T16:04:05","slug":"michael-benjamin-progressives-want-to-stop-new-yorks-new-chief-judge-because-he-actually-follows-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-benjamin-progressives-want-to-stop-new-yorks-new-chief-judge-because-he-actually-follows-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Benjamin: Progressives Want to Stop New York\u2019s New Chief Judge \u2014 Because He Actually Follows the Law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-benjamin-progressives-want-to-stop-new-yorks-new-chief-judge-because-he-actually-follows-the-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Benjamin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=119 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=89 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=60 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=30 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/benjamin-copy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 735w\"   style=\"display:none\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>I can think of no greater or more satisfying Christmas present than left-wing state senators and their allies heads exploding over Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/22\/kathy-hochul-taps-ex-prosecutor-hector-lasalle-to-be-nys-chief-judge\/\" class=\"suggested-link\">nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle<\/a> to be New York\u2019s next Chief Judge of the Court of the Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment former <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/30\/chief-judge-janet-difiore-should-be-disbarred-ethics-complaint\/\" class=\"suggested-link\">Chief Judge DiFiore announced her retirement<\/a>, the left sought to turn filling her vacancy on the Court of Appeals into an ideological battleground. Led by Deputy Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, progressives denounced DiFiore and her so-called four-judge \u201cconservative bloc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They vowed to remake the court and promised to block any nominee who didn\u2019t possess the right progressive bona fides. Gianaris &#038; Co. didn\u2019t want any moderate jurists who didn\u2019t drink the democratic socialist\/woke\/defund the police Kool-Aid. And they certainly didn\u2019t want anyone who was a former prosecutor and fought for crime victims.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn state Senator Julia Salazar \u2014 whose biographical fakeries rival those of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/22\/rep-elect-santos-says-he-will-respond-to-claims-about-his-background-next-week\/\">Rep-elect George Santos<\/a> \u2014 told New York Focus that she was \u201c[d]eeply disappointed in the Governor\u2019s nomination of someone with a clear anti-union, fundamentally conservative record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A so-called Coalition of Progressive Groups opposed to LaSalle specifically cited his former career as a prosecutor as a bias that would \u201cundermine New Yorkers\u2019 civil liberties.\u201d None of these claims are true. Neither is the assertion that Judge LaSalle is anti-abortion. The cases are cherry-picked and the facts have been deliberately misrepresented.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/new-chief-judge-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/new-chief-judge-11.jpg\" alt=\"Hochul\" class=\"wp-image-25123387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/new-chief-judge-11.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/new-chief-judge-11.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/new-chief-judge-11.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Hochul has tapped the first latino judge to head the state\u2019s top court. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is no legitimate case against Judge LaSalle\u2019s confirmation as the COA\u2019s next chief judge. His critics \u2014 who bleat that democracy is stake \u2014 are no different than a lynch mob that only respects judicial outcomes it agrees with.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>By all accounts, LaSalle is a whip-smart Puerto Rican judge whose judicial history, temperament and instinct show him to follow the law, instead of political ideology.This small mob of vocal illiberal hypocritical progressives wants judges who will bend the law to fit their political and ideological leanings. If it\u2019s wrong on the conservative right, then it\u2019s wrong on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are Senate Democrats who worry that if their leftist colleagues abandon Judge LaSalle it would enable Republicans to provide the votes needed to confirm him \u2014 thus enabling the GOP to make further inroads among Latino voters.<\/p>\n<p>The chief judge\u2019s role isn\u2019t to be the darling of either party. The role of the chief judge is to provide justice to the people of New York.It would be a slap in the face of the Puerto Rican community and other newly rising Latino groups if a few close-minded political ideologues thwarted Judge LaSalle\u2019s confirmation as the state\u2019s first Hispanic Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>As a black Democrat who earned his stripes working in the political trenches in a predominantly Puerto Rican community to achieve greater diversity and Hispanic representation in legislative bodies and in the judiciary, I\u2019m immensely proud of Judge Hector LaSalle and his history-making moment.To that end, I\u2019d urge Republican state senators to join their Democratic colleagues in confirming Judge LaSalle. It\u2019s important that moderate Democrats and Republicans in the Senate come together in support of the rule of law and facts, not political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Hochul did the right thing in nominating Judge Hector LaSalle. With Judge LaSalle leading the Court of Appeals, New Yorkers will see justice done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post editorial board member Michael Benjamin is a former Assemblyman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can think of no greater or more satisfying Christmas present than left-wing state senators and their allies heads exploding over Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle to be New York\u2019s next Chief Judge of the Court of the Appeals. From the moment former Chief Judge DiFiore announced her retirement, the left sought &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,5347,4181,11765,5458,5772,11764,5387,6547,5177,6420,11763,3819,3618,5410,4513,5474],"class_list":["post-1786466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-actually","tag-because","tag-benjamin","tag-bongino","tag-chief","tag-follows","tag-judge","tag-law","tag-michael","tag-new","tag-progressives","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-stop","tag-want","tag-yorks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}