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With the recent enactment of the “New York Early Mail Voter Act,” there are now two conflicting provisions of law setting forth different rules regarding the ability of voters to cast their vote by mail. New York will face a significant problem in…

Judges, journalists, attorneys, and law enforcement officials discussed the rights, responsibilities, and liability of the media, courts, and law enforcement in a fictional criminal trial during the Fair Trial/Free Press Conference: Gag Orders,…

Recent Executive Orders have prompted greater public awareness and scrutiny of the emergency powers of the Governor in New York State, revisions to those powers, and calls for further reform. This explainer lays out the statutory and constitutional…

In 2021, the Government Law Center issued an explainer on the redistricting of the congressional and legislative maps that was about to take place following the 2020 census. It opened by noting that “New York is about to engage in a new and untried…

On November 2, 2021, New York voters approved an Amendment to the State Constitution’s Bill of Rights providing that: “Each person shall have the right to clean air and water, and to a healthful environment.” In those sixteen words, the right to a…