A non-profit group called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, backed by theLiberty Counsel, charged in a lawsuit filed yesterdaythat the law had been rammed through the state Senate on the night of June 24 in violation of the Open Meetings Law and the Senate’s own rules.
“Constitutional liberties were violated. Today we are asking the court to intervene in its rightful role as the check and balance on an out-of-control State Legislature,” said Reverend Jason J. McGuire, executive director of the group and a resident of upstate Livingston County, where New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms v. New York State Senate was filed.
A spokesman for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement that “the plaintiffs lack a basic understanding of the laws of the state of New York. The suit is without merit.”
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