Monthly Archive: January 2025

NY Governor’s “Congestion Toll” Endangers Commuters

by · Jan 8, 2025 1:57 pm

As of last Sunday, commuters driving into New York City will have to pay a daily $9 congestion toll. The toll signed into law last November by Governor Kathy Hochul was enacted to reduce traffic in Manhattan and raise $15 billion for mass transit according to Rich Calder, Priscilla DeGregory, Georgett Roberts, and Hannah Fierick of the New York Post. The toll was supposed to take effect last June, but Hochul postponed it to protect fellow New York democrats running for Congressional seats from backlash by angry commuters. Commuters who have to go into the city to work are being forced to abandon their cars and ride on a public transit system which is demonstrably unsafe. Continue reading . . .

Trump Stay Application

by · Jan 8, 2025 10:30 am

For those following the story, the U.S. Supreme Court docket on President-elect Trump’s stay application is here.

Stay applications are submitted to the individual Supreme Court Justice assigned to the circuit. New York is in the Second Circuit, which is assigned to Justice Sotomayor, who is from New York. In important cases, the circuit justice refers the case to the full court, and I have no doubt Justice Sotomayor will do so for the decision on the merits. Continue reading . . .