Letitia James’ office filed a lawsuit Thursday against the NYPD for its actions during months of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which she says “blatantly violated the rights of New Yorkers, inflicting significant physical and psychological harm and leading to great distrust in law enforcement.”
Still making up your mind about whom to vote for? Want to check your choice one last time? Here’s a quick menu of audio and video resources on many of the candidates for state office.
With less than a week to go until election 2018, meet the third-party candidates for attorney general and comptroller.
With plenty of money in the bank, Keith Wofford is well-equipped to sell voters on his vision for an attorney general who eschews policing corporations in favor of claiming unprecedented power to chase corruption.
The Republican nominee for attorney general says the Democrats who’ve served as top law-enforcement official have been overzealous in using the Martin Act to go after corporations for alleged wrongdoing.
Last week, we asked our readers to engage with us via the new SMS-based platform GroundSource to let us know what issues matter to them as they head to – or stay home from – the ballot box on Thursday.
On local issues, all of the candidates expressed a desire to protect and strengthen the New York’s voting laws.
The upstate congressman and attorney general hopeful has supported justice reform and new protections for cops, fought the Muslim ban but voted for increasing screenings of some Mideast nationals and railed against deportations but opposed the abolition of ICE
She now has the governor and a whole hunk of money behind her run for attorney general. But as a lawyer, Councilmember and public advocate, Tish James had to fight the powerful to seize power of her own.
Zephyr Teachout sounds a lot like an average American – like someone too disillusioned to bother voting. But since she’s actually running to be Attorney General, we’ve put together a rundown of what she’s stood for as a candidate, academic and activist.