2024 SNAPSHOT OF REPORTING & EDITORIALIZING ON COELIG

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February 16, 2024
"New York Appeals Court Hears Arguments Over the Fate of the State's Ethics Panel"
AP -- US News (Michael Hill)   PBS

February 16, 2024
"Appellate court hears Cuomo challenge to fledgling ethics agency"
Albany Times Union (Dan Clark)

February 16, 2024
"Next on Cuomo's Rehabilitation Tour: Blowing Up a State Ethics Panel"
New York Times (Grace Ashford)

February 21, 2024
"New York State's Ethics Commission Facing Judicial Test"
Insurance Journal  (Michael Hill)

March 11, 2024
"NY Appellate Courts Mull Markedly Differing Lawsuits
Questioning State Ethics Watchdog"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

March 15, 2024
"Future of NY's ethics body nears"
Politico  (Bill Mahoney)

March 31, 2024
"NY's Hochul, Heastie 'abused' power to party in Buffalo Bills luxury suite"
NY Post (Carl Campanile)

April 8, 2024
"Fourth Department Hears Arguments in Lawsuit Against NY's Ethics Watchdog"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

April 17, 2024
"Charged With Regulating Conflict of Interests, Ethics Commission Hid its Own"
Focus (Chris Bragg)

May 9, 2024
"Third Department Rejects NY Ethics Commission as Unconstitutional"
NYLJ

May 9, 2024
"New York Ethics Panel Violates State Constitution, Appeals Court Rules"
New York Times (Grace Ashford)

May 9, 2024
"Appellate court sides with Cuomo, ruling ethics panel is unconstitutional"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyon)

May 9, 2024
"Cuomo wins another court battle against New York's ethics watchdog"
Politico (Bill Mahoney) 

May 9, 2024
"New York appeals court rules ethics commission
that pursued Cuomo was created unconstitutionally"
AP (Michael Hill)   also Post-Star

May 9, 2024
"Appellate court agrees that state ethics commission is unconstitutional"
City & State (Rebecca Lewis)

May 10, 2024
"Common Cause blasts COELIG ruling as 'authoritarian'"
Spectrum (Susan Arbetter)

May 13, May 15, 2024
"NY Solicitor General Pushed To Validate Statewide Ethics Panel as Constitutional"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

May 13, 2024
"Appeal court rules against NY ethics commission"
Press Republican (Alex Gault) 

May 16, 2024
"Act now for a lasting ethics fix"
Albany Times Union (editorial)  
& also May 23, 2024 Olean Times Herald

May 17, 2024
"Oversight of watchdog groups more important than ever"
Oneonta Star (editorial)

May 23, 2024
"Ethics commission's fate still in limbo"
Newsday

May 29, 2024
"Act now for a lasting ethics fix"
Daily Star (editorial)  -- Albany Times Union May 16th editorial

May 29, 2024
"There's a vetting -- and vexing problem -- with New York's laws"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

May 30, 2024
"Former senator fighting forcible kissing case takes Cuomo's path"
Albany Times Union (Brandan Lyons)

May 31, 2024
"Ethics Commission Subpoenaed Hochul Administration Over Bills Box Seats"
Focus (Chris Bragg)

June 10, 2024
"Judge ices ethics commission's case against former IDC leader"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

July 3, 2024
"Attorney Nominated to Ethics Panel as Its Validity is Before NY's Top Court"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

July 3, 2024
"Hochul names latest nominee to Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government"
Spectrum News (Luke Parsnow)

July 3, 2024
"Hochul nominates ethics commissioner as the panel's future in limbo"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

September 25, 2024
"New York state ethics panel names new chair, vice chair"
Spectrum News (Luke Parsnow)

October 1, 2024
"A state with too few watchdogs"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

November 18-19, 2024
"Fate of Ethics Panel and Cuomo Book Deal Probe Is in Top Court's Hands
as January Arguments Approach"
NYLJ (Brian Lee)

November 22, 2024
"In Brief: Why Can't New York Build an Effective Ethics Agency?"
NY Focus (Chris Bragg)

November 26, 2024
"An introduction to COELIG, NY's ethics watchdog"
Spectrum News (Susan Arbetter)

November 29, 2024
"Watchdogs: NYS needs more robust ethics commission"
Public News Service (Edwin Viera)

November 29, 2024
"N.Y. ethics commissions faces new constitutional challenge"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

December 6, 2024
"Fix Ethics Lapse"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

December 21, 2024
"Another Voice: Ongoing legal challenge to Hochul not without merit"
Buffalo News (Opinion, Joseph T. Burns, Esq.)

January 7, 2025
"Albany ethics watchdog needs teeth:
Replace the current commission which is unconstitutional"
Daily News (editorial)

January 7, 2025
“Andrew Cuomo Is Using the Conservative Playbook to Fight a State Ethics Probe”
Balls & Strikes (Steve Kennedy, Esq.)

January 7, 2025
"Can Cuomo convince New York's highest court to scrap state ethics commission"
City & State (Austin Jefferson)

January 7, 2025
"NY Ethics Board That Probed Cuomo Criticized by Top State Court"
Bloomberg (Beth Wong)

January 7, 2025
"New York ethics commissions pushes for overturning
Cuomo's challenge disbanding independent watchdog"
Courthouse News Service (Josh Russell)

January 7, 2025
"NY's high court weighs constitutionality of state ethics panel"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

January 7, 2025
"Constitutionality of New York's ethics panel argued before state's top court"
AP (Michael Hill)  KTAR-Arizona   MSN   Jan 8-Saratogian   Jan 8 - Syracuse.com

January 7, 2025
"Cuomo vs. state ethics commission goes to the Court of Appeals
with separation of powers under scrutiny"
Spectrum News (Jack Arpey)