A Democratic state senator on Friday did not back away from his position that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination for chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals can be blocked from advancing to all 63 members of the senate for a floor vote.

In an interview with the Law Journal, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Brad Hoylman-Sigal, D-Manhattan, said he doesn’t believe Hochul’s nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle will advance out of Wednesday’s committee hearing “because the votes are not in the committee to move the nomination to the floor for a vote.”

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