After being elected in November, navigating her own Democratic party has not been easy for Governor Kathy Hochul. After suffering an embarrassing loss, when the Senate rejected Justice Hector LaSalle as New York's chief judge, the governor was forced to pivot to a more liberal Justice Rowan D. Wilson, for a quick win.
The heads of both chambers of the New York State Legislature have come out and announced that lawmakers have come to an agreement to strip Governor Andrew Cuomo of emergency powers given to him at the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.