Democratic state Sen. Luis Sep\u00falveda has been appointed chair of the New York state Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n
Sep\u00falveda, who represents the 32nd Senate District in the Bronx, becomes the first Latino to hold the position.<\/p>\n
He was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who, in a statement, touted Sep\u00falveda\u2019s \u201csteady hand, deep legal understanding\u201d and \u201cstrong commitment to transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am confident that under his leadership, the Judiciary Committee will continue to set a high standard for fairness and transparency,\u201d Stewart-Cousins said. \u201cI congratulate Senator Sep\u00falveda on this well-deserved appointment and look forward to working with him as he leads the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am immensely proud to be the first Latino appointed to chair this committee and deeply grateful to Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins for entrusting me with this responsibility,\u201d Sep\u00falveda said in a statement. \u201cThroughout my career as both a practicing attorney and legislator, I have worked tirelessly to make the courts accessible and equitable for everyone. In this new capacity, I will continue carrying that mission forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sep\u00falveda takes over the role from Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who left the Senate at the end of last year to take on a new job as Manhattan borough president.<\/p>\n
Among Sep\u00falveda\u2019s tasks will include overseeing legislation impacting the courts, judicial nominations, civil and criminal procedure and constitutional and judiciary issues.<\/p>\n
Sep\u00falveda was elected to the state Senate in 2018 after serving in the Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic state Sen. Luis Sep\u00falveda has been appointed chair of the New York state Senate Judiciary Committee. Sep\u00falveda,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10511,109,116,128,9,24,49,12,112,108,63,87,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-97900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-adam-penale","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97900","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=97900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}