{"id":161636,"date":"2026-08-27T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/mamdani-revives-city-bars-role-in-judicial-vetting-but-makes-it-optional\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:48:36","slug":"mamdani-revives-city-bars-role-in-judicial-vetting-but-makes-it-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/mamdani-revives-city-bars-role-in-judicial-vetting-but-makes-it-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Revives City Bar’s Role in Judicial Vetting, but Makes It Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new agreement between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and the New York City Bar Association restores the bar group’s role in evaluating judicial candidates, but leaves participation up to the candidates themselves<\/p>\n

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A new agreement between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and the New York City Bar Association restores the bar group’s role in evaluating judicial candidates, but leaves participation up to the candidates themselves<\/p>\n

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A new agreement between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and the New York City Bar Association restores the bar group’s role in evaluating judicial candidates, but leaves participation up to the candidates themselves \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A new agreement between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary and the New York City Bar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161637,"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-161636","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\/2026\/08\/legal-news-HudOsZ.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161636","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=161636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}