18 November 2021: NY Assembly Judiciary Committee Members Reviewing Cuomo Impeachment Report

Assembly Judiciary Committee getting a look at Cuomo report

If you ever wondered why New York state legislators are so slow in doing anything, this report provides an example of the barriers they put in front of themselves in accomplishing even basic tasks, like reviewing documents:

Twenty members of the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee today are beginning to review the finalized report probing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s conduct in office. Those members will review the report one at a time inside the legislative office of Judiciary Chair Charles D. Lavine in Albany.

The law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP was hired by the Committee to conduct the investigation, which looked into allegations of sexual harassment against the former governor, as well as his handling of nursing home data during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his authorship of the memoir "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic."

And there's a Twitter post with a photo showing the security in place to prevent more than one legislator from reviewing what is almost certainly a lengthy report at a time.

BREAKING NEWS - a lone assembly staff member is on duty on the 8th floor of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, down the corridor from Assembly Judiciary Committee Charles Lavine’s office where committee members can review the Cuomo Report one at a time beginning today. pic.twitter.com/LpIyhVHaHp

— Dan Levy (@dlevywnyt) November 18, 2021