Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, alongside the City Council, is challenging Mayor Adams' emergency orders that undermine the recently passed solitary confinement ban, raising significant legal and ethical concerns about executive overreach.
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams criticized Mayor Adams' actions as "an unlawful and unprecedented abuse of power," emphasizing that his use of emergency action to halt the solitary confinement ban violates democratic principles.
Collection
[
|
...
]