{"id":299534,"date":"2026-07-18T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:50:17","slug":"letting-actress-cynthia-nixon-help-pick-top-judges-proves-ny-politics-outranks-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299534\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting actress Cynthia Nixon help pick top judges proves NY politics outranks the rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaving no doubt that lefty politics trump the rule of law in these parts, New York state Chief Judge Rowan Wilson just tapped far-left actress Cynthia Nixon to help select future members of the top court.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s no lawyer; she only played one on TV \u2014 yet that, along with her far-left cred, is apparently enough to qualify her<\/a> for the Commission on Judicial Nomination, where she\u2019ll recommend judges to serve on the Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

One-party rule just made this state that much more dysfunctional.<\/p>\n

Wilson himself became top judge only because lawmakers openly refused to accept anything but a far-left partisan in the job.<\/p>\n

They outright assassinated<\/a> the eminently qualified Hector LaSalle, Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s pick, because he wouldn\u2019t commit to twisting the law to impose their agenda without them having to actually pass it into law.<\/p>\n

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Yes, Wilson is a lawyer (unlike Nixon) and even served on the top court before becoming chief judge, but he has inappropriately campaigned for legislation (prompting an ethics complaint) and against long prison sentences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s even scolded judges for using harsh language against monstrous criminals, whose cause he\u2019s championed.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the kind of neutrality expected of judges, let alone those on the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

But that it\u2019s precisely such biases that made him so attractive to lefty lawmakers.<\/p>\n

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And now he\u2019s tapped Nixon, who ran for gov on a far left platform in 2018, to help choose future judges on the top court.<\/p>\n

She might not know the first thing about the state Constitution, the law in general or what makes a good jurist, but she\u2019s earned solid cred on the far left \u2014 and that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n

She now gets real power: Governors can only choose among the commission\u2019s nominees in tapping new judges for the state\u2019s top court.<\/p>\n

The dirty games that installed Wilson as chief judge already flipped the high court into rubber-stamping gerrymandering of election districts, and now it\u2019s likely to become even more contemptuous of the letter and even spirit of the law.<\/p>\n

The hard left keeps making more progress in ensuring that no democratic vote can remove it from power: Pray for New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaving no doubt that lefty politics trump the rule of law in these parts, New York state Chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,303,109825,1091,304,4234,2710,9,11112,11,10,49,51,50,299,4719,1211,107653,31803,82],"class_list":["post-299534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-crime","tag-cynthia-nixon","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-editorial","tag-judges","tag-law","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-court-of-appeals","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-opinion","tag-prisons","tag-socialism","tag-the-constitution","tag-the-left","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299534","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=299534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}