{"id":123303,"date":"2025-06-18T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/significant-power-nycs-next-mayor-can-change-the-courts-but-are-people-watching\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:42:53","slug":"significant-power-nycs-next-mayor-can-change-the-courts-but-are-people-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/significant-power-nycs-next-mayor-can-change-the-courts-but-are-people-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Significant Power’: NYC’s Next Mayor Can Change The Courts. But Are People Watching?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City mayor can appoint and reappoint judges to the city’s criminal and family courts\u2014which are the most salient points of contact for most residents\u2014and may temporarily fill vacancies in the city’s civil courts. But how mayors have wielded this power, and how the next one will, has received little attention, even as public safety and criminal justice have become key campaign points in the competitive mayoral race.<\/p>\n

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The New York City mayor can appoint and reappoint judges to the city’s criminal and family courts\u2014which are the most salient points of contact for most residents\u2014and may temporarily fill vacancies in the city’s civil courts. But how mayors have wielded this power, and how the next one will, has received little attention, even as public safety and criminal justice have become key campaign points in the competitive mayoral race.<\/p>\n

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The New York City mayor can appoint and reappoint judges to the city’s criminal and family courts\u2014which are the most salient points of contact for most residents\u2014and may temporarily fill vacancies in the city’s civil courts. But how mayors have wielded this power, and how the next one will, has received little attention, even as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123304,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-h5ztL0.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123303","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}