State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins engineered a historic takedown of Gov. Hochul's pick to be New York's top judge in a surprise power play Wednesday that thrust Albany dysfunction back into the spotlight.The hastily called 39-20 vote against Justice Hector LaSalle, a respected centrist Democrat, took the legs out from under Hochul politically, just weeks into her first full term - and as she prepares for crucial budget negotiations with Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx).
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