{"id":100859,"date":"2025-01-17T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/17\/as-lawmakers-eye-need-for-ny-supreme-court-posts-could-a-ballot-question-remove-the-constitutional-limit\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:05:51","slug":"as-lawmakers-eye-need-for-ny-supreme-court-posts-could-a-ballot-question-remove-the-constitutional-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/17\/as-lawmakers-eye-need-for-ny-supreme-court-posts-could-a-ballot-question-remove-the-constitutional-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"As Lawmakers Eye Need for NY Supreme Court Posts, Could a Ballot Question Remove the Constitutional Limit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advocates say the constitutional cap\u2014one Supreme Court seat for each 50,000 people\u2014provides no flexibility to address emerging needs. While the bill is a top priority for the New York City Bar Association, the association representing Supreme Court justices has raised concerns over fairness and equity.<\/p>\n

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Advocates say the constitutional cap\u2014one Supreme Court seat for each 50,000 people\u2014provides no flexibility to address emerging needs. While the bill is a top priority for the New York City Bar Association, the association representing Supreme Court justices has raised concerns over fairness and equity.<\/p>\n

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Advocates say the constitutional cap\u2014one Supreme Court seat for each 50,000 people\u2014provides no flexibility to address emerging needs. While the bill is a top priority for the New York City Bar Association, the association representing Supreme Court justices has raised concerns over fairness and equity. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Advocates say the constitutional cap\u2014one Supreme Court seat for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/legal-news-k5EHEz.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}