{"id":365366,"date":"2026-10-06T01:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365366\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:34:29","slug":"brooklyn-dems-claim-to-elect-new-chair-despite-court-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365366\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Dems claim to elect new chair, despite court orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Democratic Party on Monday claimed to have elected Assembly Member Nikki Lucas as the next party chair after a late-night vote that seemed to violate court orders and the party\u2019s bylaws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn called a virtual meeting of the party\u2019s executive committee on Sunday to elect new leadership. But only a handful of participants were elected District Leaders. Most of the people who took part in the meeting \u2014 and cast their votes for Lucas \u2014 are not legally part of the executive committee, according to rulings from the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/judge-blocks-brooklyn-democratic-rule-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Supreme<\/a> and Appellate courts.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/brooklyn-dems-elect-new-chair-court-orders\/\" 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\tBrooklyn Dems claim to elect new chair, despite court orders &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Democratic Party on Monday claimed to have elected Assembly Member Nikki Lucas as the next party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[126355,22343,98,18390,100,99,10916,54528,135382,2803,53882,124481,54530,3100,126360,9,24,12,370,63,8004,87,17961,123648,135383,2220],"class_list":["post-365366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-anthony-genovesi","tag-appellate-court","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-democratic-party","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-brooklyn-dems","tag-contempt-of-court","tag-court","tag-district-leaders","tag-executive-committee","tag-julio-peu00f1a-iii","tag-lawsuit","tag-mark-hanna","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-nydia-velazquez","tag-politics","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn","tag-rule-changes","tag-unlawful","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365366","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=365366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}