Queens Dems tap three judges for Supreme Court
/Three Queens judges were nominated to run for the New York State Supreme Court by the Queens County Democratic Party last week.
Read MoreThree Queens judges were nominated to run for the New York State Supreme Court by the Queens County Democratic Party last week.
Read MoreThe New York Working Families Party is endorsing Latoya LeGrand in her bid to succeed her former boss, State Assemblymember Vivian Cook, in the legislature, setting up a clash between the progressive group and the Queens County Democratic Party in a part of the borough the Dems have historically dominated.
Read MoreThere’s no single clear frontrunner in the race to represent one of the city’s most diverse Council districts – there’s three.
Read MoreLawyers for the Queens County Democratic Party told a judge this week that ballot petition signatures purportedly collected from voters by a canvasser for a Queens judicial candidate – and for several others running for office – were forged.
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party nominated over half a dozen judicial candidates to run on its party line in the November race for Supreme Court during its annual judicial convention on Thursday night.
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party nominated a trio of candidates to run for Civil Court in November after a bill signed into law earlier this month by the governor created three new spots on the bench in Queens.
Read MoreIt was mostly a good night Tuesday for the Queens County Democratic Party, whose candidates in primary races across the borough faced credible threats from insurgent candidates.
Read MoreEmbattled Assemblymember Juan Ardila has officially filed to seek re-election for his Western Queens seat, despite having been called on to resign following sexual assault allegations made earlier this year by nearly every one of his Western Queens colleagues, a number of local leaders and the governor.
Read MoreThe party’s delegates are largely expected to select Judges Cassandra Johnson, Karen Lin, Peter Kelly, Scott Dunn and Jessica Earle-Gargan as the candidates who will run with the party’s endorsement in November
Read MoreDemocratic Queens district attorney candidate George Grasso officially launched his campaign this week. Facing an uphill battle against incumbent Melinda Katz, Grasso said he’s already begun contemplating a third party run should he be beat in the upcoming primary election.
Read MoreHiram Monserrate, the disgraced former Queens lawmaker, has built a successful judge-electing machine in Queens. He’s trying to do it again – and get back into the City Council.
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party voted to support five candidates to fill five judicial vacancies on the Queens Civil Court bench last week.
Read MoreThe largely pro forma judicial convention to nominate Supreme Court justice candidates to the Queens County Democratic Party’s line in November was met with dissent this week by a group of New Reformer delegates.
Read MoreThe Queens County Democratic Party’s judicial convention will convene Thursday evening to officially nominate judges to run on the party’s line in the 2021 election.
Read More“There are several individuals who look to be nominated at these conventions and year after year, most of them are sitting Civil Court judges.”
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