Louis Cholden-Brown
@lcholdenbrown.bsky.social
Advocate, Public Servant, Amateur Enigmatologist. AD75 State Committee Member. X Refugee.
While the timing couldn't be more personally inconvenient (b/c that's what matters not the rights of millions of workers), I do get to talk about the devastating unconstitutional stay momentarily as part of my presentation of my paper "Should We Fear the End of Garmon"
Garmon preemption has been resuspended. States and localities start your worker-rights affirming engines!
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
While the timing couldn't be more personally inconvenient (b/c that's what matters not the rights of millions of workers), I do get to talk about the devastating unconstitutional stay momentarily as part of my presentation of my paper "Should We Fear the End of Garmon"
Garmon preemption has been resuspended. States and localities start your worker-rights affirming engines!
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Garmon preemption has been resuspended. States and localities start your worker-rights affirming engines!
Reposted by Louis Cholden-Brown
The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed.
"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed.
"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Except the law doesn't allow her to remove him in one fell swoop so starting the process will not risk a knee-jerk reaction. Ideally, suspend him, but regardless, serve charges & give him statutory opportunity to be heard in defense. Plenty of time to think, with more info, then.
Hochul said she saw the letter former US Attorney Danielle Sassoon sent, calling the allegations she made about Adams "extremely concerning and serious," but she can't have a "knee jerk, politically motivated reaction." She says she needs "some time to process this and figure out the right approach"
February 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Except the law doesn't allow her to remove him in one fell swoop so starting the process will not risk a knee-jerk reaction. Ideally, suspend him, but regardless, serve charges & give him statutory opportunity to be heard in defense. Plenty of time to think, with more info, then.
Wholesale Laundry is dead letter and based on bad law. Now is the time for NYC to not only raise the standard for tipped and minimum wage workers but also bring its power to wage theft enforcement and misclassification.
New: Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist from Queens who is running for mayor, wants to raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030.
Here's how he'd do it...
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...
Here's how he'd do it...
www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...
Mamdani unveils ‘$30 by ‘30’ minimum wage push as part of mayoral campaign
The Assembly member and mayoral candidate is adding another plank to his affordability platform.
www.cityandstateny.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Wholesale Laundry is dead letter and based on bad law. Now is the time for NYC to not only raise the standard for tipped and minimum wage workers but also bring its power to wage theft enforcement and misclassification.
Reposted by Louis Cholden-Brown
"They should have told Jumaane, because if something went wrong, like the mayor ending up in a coma, it would be bad,” City Charter expert Louis Cholden-Brown said of Mayor Adams' office, as the public advocate's accusing him of violating the Charter last week. www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/05/p...
Public Advocate Williams says Adams didn’t tell him he was acting mayor while he underwent anesthesia
Jumaane Williams was legally acting mayor last week while Mayor Adams went under anesthesia for an undisclosed medical issue — and Williams is now accusing the mayor of violating the City Charter b…
www.nydailynews.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"They should have told Jumaane, because if something went wrong, like the mayor ending up in a coma, it would be bad,” City Charter expert Louis Cholden-Brown said of Mayor Adams' office, as the public advocate's accusing him of violating the Charter last week. www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/05/p...