{"id":147284,"date":"2026-02-27T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:48:15","slug":"meet-the-aide-who-will-pick-mamdanis-judges-new-york-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147284\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Aide Who Will Pick Mamdani\u2019s Judges: New York Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mamdani\u2019s court adviser wants a bench beyond prosecutors, Trump and the mayor have another White House meetup, and Kalshi taps an Albany lobbying firm, below:<\/p>\n

Ali Najmi Seeks Non-Prosecutors as Judges<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking to become a New York City judge, here\u2019s who to know: Ali Najmi, a top Mamdani legal adviser. <\/p>\n

Najmi\u2019s looking to expand the bench beyond ex-prosecutors and court clerks. \u201cThe legal community is much bigger than that,\u201d he told me in an interview from his lower Manhattan office, with skyline views aplenty. (Ironically, it\u2019s in 40 Wall Street, \u201cThe Trump Building,\u201d<\/a> which Najmi laughs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s court adviser wants a bench beyond prosecutors, Trump and the mayor have another White House meetup, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,31922,61735,61734,56417,61736,9207,8967,61738,9,11,10,40931,22551,61628,4015,42108,61737],"class_list":{"0":"post-147284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-business-lobbying","10":"tag-class-certification","11":"tag-congressional-committee-membership","12":"tag-corporate-income-tax","13":"tag-criminal-assault","14":"tag-deportation","15":"tag-election-campaigns","16":"tag-law-enforcement-officers","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-payment-of-tax","21":"tag-physicians","22":"tag-public-defenders","23":"tag-social-media","24":"tag-state-tax","25":"tag-student-and-exchange-visitor-visas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}