Have to get this dem educated on the rules of law...

That entire independent DEm situation has been a disgrace and hobbled the state with Con values.

The voters in his district voted in a DEMOCRAT, my guess is that is what they want. Unfortunately, he can block efforts to redistrict him out, so someone from his district have to beat him.

is a very Jewish area of Brooklyn and I don't think they would vote him out as the things he says he's for are important to the Orthodox community. What will bring change is as younger and more progressive people move in. Something I think he fears as he's seeking to stop decontrolling of rent.

In NYC rent decontrol means yuppification, which in this case, may not be a bad thing.

His primary challenger appears to be active in the community and dialed into it, maybe that will help the challenger.

He also wants an ends to the raising of stabilized rents if I'm reading his view on that correctly. Which, by the way, would be fine with me but I don't expect it as the landlord lobby is pretty strong. A challenger would be wonderful. And yes, yuppification may end up being a factor just as it is now in Williamsburg.

My ass!

Simcha Felder is not a Republican in sheep’s clothing. He organizes with the Republicans because he gets goodies for his district. If it’s 31-31 and he thinks the Democrats are likely to take the Senate outright in a wave election, he’ll shift sides. Most of the issues addressed in Albany are not debated along ideological lines.

The Kushners are closely connected with Orthodox Jewish groups in Brooklyn, so it's likely that Felder will be Trump friendly.

And there is a real Democrat who's running against him in the primary in September, Blake Morris.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210512097

In fact, the State Party just endorsed a GOV candidate who's notably NOT Trump friendly...because they know Trump friendly will lose.

As for Blake Morris? Get back to me when he wins the nomination. I won't be laying awake at night waiting.

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is considered as double jeopardy wrt being tried in NY State court.

The change in the law would make it possible to retry the same crime at the state level which is the law in many states.

To me this seems if Trump shuts down prosecutions before they are adjudicated it has no effect on NY ability to prosecute the crime.

Maybe someone who knows better will correct me.
I am not a lawyer or have any authority on the subject save the "internets".

then NY state could still prosecute.

But I doubt he'd do that.

NY to prosecute Manafort, Cohen, and others if Trump pardons them. Which is all too likely.

Only one vote stands between Schneiderman and that law getting passed, and that vote belongs to the fake-Democrat, Felder. He ran as a Democrat but tossed his support to the Republican leader in the State Senate.

If he wants a law that allows NY to charge Trump and crime buddies on federal stuff after anpardon, good luck on constitutional challenges.

In many other states -- those that have a "separate sovereign" doctrine -- people can be prosecuted for the same crimes in Federal and state courts. But NY state has a double jeopardy law that is a barrier. It needs to be changed.

All Schneiderman wants to do is change NY state law to close a loophole, and not let people pardoned under Federal prosecutions to escape NY prosecution.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/myths-of-the-criminal-justice-system_n_879768.html

Finally, there is the “separate sovereigns” exception to double jeopardy. This allows a defendant to be tried, convicted and sentenced for the same crime in both state and federal court. The most well-known example of the separate sovereigns exception is when the Los Angeles police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted in state court, then convicted in federal court of violating King’s civil rights.