{"id":336665,"date":"2026-09-03T04:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:47:05","slug":"hearing-on-brooklyn-democratic-party-rule-change-delayed-after-party-members-arrive-without-legal-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336665\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on Brooklyn Democratic Party rule change delayed after party members arrive without legal counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court hearing on controversial rule changes within the Brooklyn Democratic Party was adjourned Wednesday to give three respondents more time to secure legal counsel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Supreme Court justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/jill-epstein-nys-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jill Epstein<\/a> had been set to hear arguments in a case seeking to overturn a series of party bylaw amendments proposed by sitting chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn in an apparent bid to maintain control of the party and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brooklyn-dem-chair-changes-rules-closed-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">approved<\/a> in a last-minute, closed-door meeting last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/brooklyn-democratic-party-hearing-delayed-counsel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tHearing on Brooklyn Democratic Party rule change delayed after party members arrive without legal counsel &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A court hearing on controversial rule changes within the Brooklyn Democratic Party was adjourned Wednesday to give three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[126354,126355,126356,98,18390,100,99,10916,17200,126357,2659,2979,126358,126359,5112,54530,91,2148,126360,9,24,12,370,63,20192,87,17961,126361,2220],"class_list":["post-336665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-anthony-beckford","tag-anthony-genovesi","tag-arleny-alvarado-mccall","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-democratic-party","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-chair","tag-counsel","tag-election","tag-hearing","tag-heriberto-mateo","tag-jill-epstein","tag-judge","tag-julio-peu00f1a-iii","tag-lawyer","tag-legal-representation","tag-mark-hanna","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn","tag-rule-change","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336665","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=336665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}