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Chief Judge Resigns at Crucial Time for New York’s Top Court [1]

['Jesse Mckinley', 'Benjamin Weiser']

Date: 2022-07-11  

Janet DiFiore, the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, says she will step down at the end of August, even as lawmakers in Albany consider stronger laws on guns and abortion, measures at the heart of a national debate whose legality could be determined by the state judiciary.

In an interview on Monday morning, Judge DiFiore, 66, who is in charge of the state’s entire court system, said that there was no triggering event for her resignation, but that she was ready to pursue other opportunities after more than six years on the job that included rancorous criticism from some of the judges and court employees she supervised and legislators who were upset at her decisions.

“I’ve made my contribution,” she said, adding that she had no other job waiting, but felt it was a “comfortable moment” to move on. She allowed, however, that there would be “another chapter in my professional career.”

“What that is, at this very moment, I’m not certain,” she said.

The chief judge of the Court of Appeals, which has seven members, is New York’s highest judicial post. Judge DiFiore will be replaced by an acting chief judge, selected by the six other judges on the court, until a successor is named by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, and confirmed by the State Senate, which is also led by a Democratic supermajority.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/nyregion/janet-difiore-ny-judge.html

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