{"id":2819,"date":"2025-03-20T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:00:12","slug":"statement-from-speaker-adams-on-the-court-of-appeals-ruling-on-local-law-11-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/03\/20\/2819\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Adams on the Court of Appeals\u2019 Ruling on Local Law 11 of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the New York State Court of Appeals\u2019 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/ctapps\/Decisions\/2025\/Mar25\/15opn25-Decision.pdf\"><em>ruling<\/em><\/a><em> on Local Law 11 of 2022,<strong> Speaker Adrienne Adams<\/strong> released the following statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Local Law 11 of 2022, the Council sought to strengthen our city\u2019s democratic process and increase civic engagement by enfranchising the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who pay taxes and contribute to our communities but are unable to make their voices heard in local elections. From the outset, this case presented complex legal questions regarding the State Constitution, Election Law, and the Municipal Home Rule Law. We appreciate the majority&#8217;s affirmation that the local law did not need to be passed by referendum, but we disagree that the State Constitution bars municipalities from expanding the local franchise to noncitizens as noted by Justice Rivera in her dissent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are disappointed with today\u2019s overall ruling, we respect the judiciary\u2019s role in our democracy to make these decisions. The Council, as always, will continue to support and protect our immigrant community members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the New York State Court of Appeals\u2019 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/ctapps\/Decisions\/2025\/Mar25\/15opn25-Decision.pdf\"><em>ruling<\/em><\/a><em> on Local Law 11 of 2022,<strong> Speaker Adrienne Adams<\/strong> released the following statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Local Law 11 of 2022, the Council sought to strengthen our city\u2019s democratic process and increase civic engagement by enfranchising the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who pay taxes and contribute to our communities but are unable to make their voices heard in local elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2025\/03\/20\/2819\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}