{"id":336765,"date":"2026-09-03T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:46:18","slug":"im-going-to-tell-you-to-sit-down-judge-admonishes-brooklyn-dems-lawyer-in-boisterous-power-grab-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336765\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m Going to Tell You to Sit Down&#8217;: Judge Admonishes Brooklyn Dems Lawyer in Boisterous &#8216;Power Grab&#8217; Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawsuit alleging Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn made illegal, <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11th-hour rule changes<\/a> to cling to power was delayed in court Wednesday, after a fraught hearing in which a Brooklyn judge was repeatedly forced to address the courtroom like a kindergarten teacher, asking party members to use their inside voices.<\/p>\n<p>During the morning hearing, Brooklyn Democratic Party Law Chair Anthony Genovesi Jr. grumbled, raised his voice, jumped up and down from his seat, and barked at court officers in a boisterous display of court theater, as he argued that the case should be adjourned until all defendants could find attorneys. (Genovesi&#8217;s client, Bichotte Hermelyn, did not appear at the hearing.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are we going to forget about their rights?&#8221; he asked New York Supreme Court Judge Jill Epstein, in a loud and impassioned plea to push the hearing to a later date. &#8220;They have rights,&#8221; Epstein replied, before adding: &#8220;Mr. Genovesi, I&#8217;m going to ask you to please temper your tone.&#8221;\u00a0<\/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":"A lawsuit alleging Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn made illegal, 11th-hour rule changes to cling to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336765","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=336765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}