The new leader of the association of New York trial court judges suggested lawmakers pump the brakes on a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to lift the state’s long-held population-based cap on judges.
Judge Verna Saunders, president of the Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, told the Law Journal the proposal raises a number of concerns about potentially upending separation of powers, since lawmakers would be able to increase or decrease the number of judges in the state’s 13 judicial districts.
