NYS Legislature Agrees To Strip Cuomo Of Emergency Pandemic Powers
Listen to the story from Capital Correspondent Karen Dewitt. Nearly one year ago, as the first cases of Covid were discovered in New York, the legislature granted Cuomo extraordinary powers that go beyond the scope of what a governor already holds under state law in times of emergency. They have included the power to shut down and open up businesses and schools, and determine who gets vaccines. But, after a report by the state’s Attorney General found the governor and his aides undercounted the number of nursing home deaths from the disease, and withheld those numbers for months, Democr...