State senators are using seasoned election law attorneys to make their case that Governor David A. Paterson lacks the authority to appoint a lieutenant governor, while Mr. Paterson’s legal defense is being led by a former law school dean who was mentioned this spring as a possible successor to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
A team led by Kathleen M. Sullivan, the head of the appellate practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, will press Mr. Paterson’s contention that he was within his legal powers to appoint Richard Ravitch to fill the vacant lieutenant governor’s post amid what the governor termed a “constitutional crisis” of the deadlocked Senate.
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