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2019 Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation

 

Temporary Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins' appointment
of
Seymour Lachman

Disqualified for interest, arising from his nonfeasance as a scholar
and head of a college institute on government reform, to take any steps to rectify the ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE-BASED SCHOLARSHIP of the New York State constitution and state governance, such as embodied by CJA's declaratory and citizen-taxpayer actions against the state, challenging the "force of law" compensation commissions, their reports, legislative rules, the judiciary, legislative, and executive budgets, "three-men-in-a-room" -- and furnishing him, at the outset, with a July 9, 2012 proposal for scholarship of Court of Appeals' decisions on constitutional questions, beginning with its February 23, 2010 decision in the judges' judicial compensation lawsuits, as to which the ONLY analysis was by CJA, demonstrating its illegitimacy. 
 

Bio - Wagner College

HUGH CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM


THREE MEN IN A ROOM --
The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

by Seymour Lachman (2006)

 

2012

cc: 
CJA's July 9, 2012 letter to Citizens' Committee for an Effective Constitution -- "Actualizing the Name, Purpose, and Methodology of the Citizens’ Committee for an Effective Constitution"       transmitting e-mail            
           
         
(1) CJA’s July 19, 2011 letter to Attorney General, analyzing Court of Appeals
                    Feb. 23, 2010 decision in judges' judicial pay raise lawsuits;
            (2) Executive Summary to CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
            (3) Press Release of CJA’s March 30, 2012 lawsuit
            (4) Sept 9, 1997 letter to Golisano, with attached transcript excerpt

                          

CJA's July 24, 2012 e-mail to Professor/Director Lachman --
"Building Scholarship on NYS Constitutional Issues & Governance -- beginning with CJA's Public Interest Lawsuit vs NYS' Highest Constitutional Officers & 3 Government Branches"

 

CJA's August 21, 2012 e-mail to Professor/Director Lachman --
"Countdown to the 2012 Primary & General Elections -- and to the 2017 Ballot Question Whether There Should Be a NYS Constitutional Convention"

 

cc:  CJA's September 6, 2012 e-mail to Professor Eric Lane --
"The Unconstitutionality of NYS' Legislative Rules, as Written & as Applied"

 

CJA's September 7, 2012 e-mail to Brennan Center for Justice --
"Reforming NYS Government NOW:  The Unconstitutionality of NYS' Legislative Rules, as Written & as Applied"

 

2013

 

CJA's January 5, 2013 e-mail to Professors --
"Expert Opinion Needed: The Most Important Votes of the Upcoming 236th Legislative Session"

CJA's October 24, 2013 e-mail to Professors --
"ALERT: NYS Constitutional Scholars & Political Scientists: Corruption on Steroids'

                    "Proposition 1: Corruption on Steroids",
                 Artvoice, October 24, 2013 (Joel Rose)

        CJA's September 17, 2013 testimony before the Commission to Investigate
          Public Corruption

CJA's October 24, 2013 e-mail to Professors --
"Links: ALERT: NYS Constitutional Scholars & Political Scientists: Corruption on Steroids'"
 

 

            CJA's August 21, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo

          CJA's August 5, 2013 letter to Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

CJA's November 29, 2013 e-mail to Professors -- 
"BUILDING SCHOLARSHIP: Commission to Investigate Public Corruption -- & the Upcoming Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

          The People Have Something to Say -- & Evidence to Back It Up
             (
& the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption's so-called "Public Hearings")

cc: CJA's December 2, 2013 to Professors --
"Big Day for NYS Governance: Where are the Scholars to Provide Expert Opinions?"

cc:  CJA's December 8, 2013 e-mail to Professors --
"NEWS TIP on the 'Moreland' Commission's Dec 2 report, fn. 330, & the Gov's Dec 4 interview on "Capitol Pressroom"

CJA's December 19, 2013 e-mail to Professors
"Expert Opinion-Scholarship Needed: NYS Budget"

2014

CJA's January 4, 2014 e-mail to Professors --
"What is Your Expert Opinion of the Budgets Proposed by New York's Legislative & Judiciary Branches? -- & How Should the Governor & Legislature be Reviewing Them, Consistent with Article VII of the NYS Constitution?" 

                 furnished link:  
                           CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo --
                          "SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY..."
 

2016

CJA's March 31, 2016 e-mail to Professors -- "Why are the 'good government' groups & scholars of the constitution and public fisc not educating the media about what the NYS Constitution has to say about the NYS budget?"

             
furnished link: March 23, 2016 Verified 2nd Supplemental Complaint


cc:  CJA's April 26, 2016 e-mail to Hofstra Law School Professor Lane -- "Thank you, Dean Lane!  May you lead the way to building scholarship & informed discussion...the state budget"           

cc:  CJA's April 29, 2016 e-mail to Brennan Center Counsel Fritz Schwarz -- "Thank you, Fritz Schwarz!  Building on the Brennan Center's 2004 report by your March 23, 2016 testimony & CJA's March 23, 2016 second supplemental complaint"    
    
 -- click here for: Legislative Rules Reform Resource Page

cc:    CJA's May 3, 2016 e-mail to Assemblyman Phil Steck-- "Thank you, Assemblyman Steck!  Follow-up to your March 23, 2016 testimony before the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation"

2019

"Now, fix NY's Legislature:
Albany is still a boss-driven 'democracy'
"
Daily News, May 1, 2019 (Seymour Lachman)

CJA's May 1, 2019 e-mail to Professor Lachman --
"Your today's Daily News column -- Albany's 'boss-driven 'democracy'' is UNCONSTITUTIONAL & the 'fix' is NOW before the NY Court of Appeals on an appeal of right on the constitutional issues
directly involved"

                             furnished link:   Appellants' March 26, 2019 letter to Court of Appeals

 

 

 

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