{"id":367519,"date":"2026-10-08T03:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:37:44","slug":"brooklyn-dems-leadership-battle-hits-new-snag-in-court-as-parties-clash-over-legal-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367519\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Dems\u2019 leadership battle hits new snag in court as parties clash over legal representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal battle over who, exactly, is in charge of the Brooklyn Democratic Party cannot continue until a judge decides which lawyers are authorized to represent the party in court.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Lisa Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/velazquez-not-bichotte-hermelyn-leads-bk-dems-judge-rules\/416403\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">declared<\/a> that former party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn\u2019s term ended on Sept. 23. For now, she ruled, the only person with county-wide authority is newly-elected county committee chair Nydia Velazquez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/brooklyn-democratic-party-battle-snag-court\/\" 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\u2019 leadership battle hits new snag in court as parties clash over legal representation &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal battle over who, exactly, is in charge of the Brooklyn Democratic Party cannot continue until a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134061,135809,135810,98,18390,100,99,10916,54528,128459,17200,2803,416,124481,128461,9340,2148,126360,10597,130034,9,24,12,370,135811,63,8004,135812,135813,128462,135814,87,17961],"class_list":["post-367519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-amended-rules","tag-anthony-genovese","tag-authorization","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-democratic-party","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-brooklyn-dems","tag-bylaws","tag-chair","tag-court","tag-elections","tag-executive-committee","tag-howard-graubard","tag-lawyers","tag-legal-representation","tag-mark-hanna","tag-meeting","tag-new-kings-democrats","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nikki-lucas","tag-nyc","tag-nydia-velazquez","tag-party-bylaws","tag-party-chair","tag-paul-newell","tag-peter-sweeney","tag-politics","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367519","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=367519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}