{"id":39588,"date":"2021-08-17T06:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=39588"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T10:51:07","slug":"nys-assembly-judiciary-committee-will-release-impeachment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/nys-assembly-judiciary-committee-will-release-impeachment-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NYS Assembly Judiciary Committee Will Release Impeachment Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39589\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/nys-assembly-judiciary-committee-will-release-impeachment-report\/heastie-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Heastie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-39589\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?resize=375%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The <strong>New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee<\/strong> has announced it will release a final report of its impeachment investigation into Governor <strong>Andrew Cuomo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement by Speaker <strong>Carl Heastie<\/strong> and Chair <strong>Charles Lavine<\/strong>, the committee says it will continue to review evidence before it releases its final report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The committee will take all appropriate steps to ensure that this effort does not interfere with various ongoing investigations by the United States Attorney concerning nursing home data; the attorney general concerning the governor&#8217;s memoir; and local law enforcement authorities in five jurisdictions \u2013 Manhattan, Albany, Westchester, Nassau and Oswego \u2013 regarding possible criminal incidents of sexual misconduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Heastie announced the Assembly would suspend its investigation of Cuomo once he steps down.<\/p>\n<p>Heastie said lawyers had advised the body\u2019s judiciary committee that the state constitution doesn\u2019t authorize the Legislature to impeach an elected official no longer in office.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was met with criticism from Republican members of the Legislature and also some Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Governor <strong>Kathy Hochul<\/strong> will take over as governor when Cuomo steps down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee has announced it will release a final report of its impeachment investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a joint statement by Speaker Carl Heastie and Chair Charles Lavine, the committee says it will continue to review evidence before it releases its final report. &#8220;The committee will take all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[122,4729,10563,1333,10564],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Heastie-ft.jpg?fit=700%2C493&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-aiw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39591,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions\/39591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}