{"id":180008,"date":"2021-02-17T03:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gov-andrew-cuomo-has-wielded-dictatorial-powers-for-long-enough\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T03:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:34:48","slug":"gov-andrew-cuomo-has-wielded-dictatorial-powers-for-long-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-andrew-cuomo-has-wielded-dictatorial-powers-for-long-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gov. Andrew Cuomo has wielded dictatorial powers for long enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gov. Andrew Cuomo has wielded dictatorial powers for long enough<\/strong>”
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The stench from Gov. Cuomo\u2019s nursing-home carnage and months-long coverup is finally causing even some Democratic pols in Albany to turn against the governor. At least 14 have now joined Republicans to demand Cuomo be strip<\/a>ped of his pandemic emergency powers.<\/p>\n

And not a day too soon. Cuomo used those powers to shutter restaurants and other businesses, close schools and impose especially heavy-handed restrictions on houses of worship (the US Supreme Court rebuked him on that last count).<\/p>\n

Emergency powers should last for a few weeks or maybe a month \u2014 long enough to keep the public safe until the Legislature can swing into action. Instead, the governor has wielded emergency powers for 11 months \u2014 and for what? One of the worst COVID performances in the nation.<\/p>\n

You know the history: Last March, the Cuomo administration ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-infected patients. Then for months afterward, he lied and tried to hide the number of victims. In January, state Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James, a Cuomo prot\u00e9g\u00e9, revealed the true death toll \u2014 more than 50 percent higher than the administration claimed \u2014 in an investigative report. Last week, a top Cuomo top aide, Melissa DeRosa, admitted that the administration withheld the truth to avoid a federal probe.<\/p>\n

The GOP minority in the state Legislature has tried repeatedly to rein in Cuomo\u2019s powers, but lawmakers in the Democratic majority refused, preferring to collect their paychecks for doing nothing while the governor called all the shots.<\/p>\n

Now, with growing calls for accountability, some Democrats finally are on board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans want more \u2014 impeachment \u2014 but that isn\u2019t going to happ<\/a>en. Convicting and removing the governor would require an improbable \u2154 vote of the state\u2019s top judges and<\/em> the Democratic-controlled state Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has been 100 years since a New York governor was impeached, though in 2008, lawmakers were readying articles of impeachment against Gov. Eliot Spitzer for moral turpitude involving high-end escorts; Spitzer chose to resign.<\/p>\n

Stripping Cuomo of his emergency powers is politically doable, and the public would benefit. That would put the state Legislature back in charge, ensuring that whatever actions are taken to fight COVID are more balanced and reasonable than what Cuomo did. It\u2019s hard to imagine that lawmakers would vote to shutter churches, destroy businesses and close down schools in their own districts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They\u2019d have to answer to their angry neighbors and constituents. Albany is largely insulated from that under the dictatorial arrangement.<\/p>\n

Even when governors behave more honorably than Cuomo, prolonged emergency powers are a bad idea. After all, if government by one person produced wiser decisions than government by the people\u2019s elected lawmakers, we\u2019d opt for autocratic government all the time. Why choose it during crises?<\/p>\n

Eleven months into the pandemic, the public all across the country is revolting against governors whose emergency powers have allowed them to act like autocrats. More than half the states are in the process of passing laws barring governors from closing businesses and schools in a future emergency.\u00a0Pennsylvania is considering a law to limit a governor\u2019s disaster powers to 21 days, Kentucky to 30 days, Indiana to 60.<\/p>\n

Laughably, many of these governors are pushing back, even going to court to hold onto their autocratic powers. They argue that in emergencies, the democratic process is too slow and messy. Like Cuomo, they\u2019re relishing power. But limitless emergency powers are far more dangerous.<\/p>\n

In California, a recall effort against Gov. Gavin News<\/a>om has amassed more than 1.5 million signatures.\u00a0Newsom sparked outrage not only with his arbitrary lockdown orders, but also his hypocrisy. When he got caught attending a posh dinner at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley, the recall effort gained steam.<\/p>\n

Sadly, New York state doesn\u2019t provide for recall, and one-party rule makes impeachment impossible.\u00a0The public is stuck with Cuomo at least until the next gubernatorial election, nearly two years off. That\u2019s why state lawmakers must act now to remove King Cuomo\u2019s emergency powers. As the British sage Lord Acton taught, \u201cAbsolute power corrupts absolutely.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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