{"id":227349,"date":"2026-05-11T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:24:09","slug":"in-queens-a-scripted-judicial-convention-briefly-derailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227349\/","title":{"rendered":"In Queens, a Scripted Judicial Convention, Briefly Derailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past year, Hell Gate and Type Investigations have been haunting courtrooms, hanging out in strange outerborough political clubhouses, and filing endless requests for transcripts to produce\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/courtsofcontempt.hellgatenyc.com\/?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courts of Contempt<\/a>\u2014our investigation into the machinations of New York&#8217;s broken judicial system.<\/p>\n<p>This installment of our investigation looks at how the Queens Democratic Party very neatly choreographed its judicial convention, to make sure those potential judges who had been picked by party leaders would get the nomination. To see the full Courts of Contempt project and read all the Case Files, you can go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/courtsofcontempt.hellgatenyc.com\/?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(If you want to see more work like this and help support worker-owned local journalism, now is a great time to subscribe to Hell Gate, because we&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/all-rise-for-the-hell-gate-trial-subscription-sale-2\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running a sale<\/a>. Act now, and we&#8217;ll throw in a beautiful hard copy of our Courts of Contempt zine!)<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past year, Hell Gate and Type Investigations have been haunting courtrooms, hanging out in strange outerborough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-227349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227349","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=227349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}