I must add that while it did that, New York State Court Administration is stalling my FOIL request for copies of affidavits of members of the public who were not invited to testify and upon which the Commission relied in addition to the transcripts of public hearings. They stall my FOIL request even after telling the public that all submissions to the Commission were subject to the Freedom of Information Law.
I guess, it is unrealistic and naive to expect fairness - or even following the law - by Commission on fairness handled by lawyers.
The report is a 97-page document and requires thorough review before I start posting my impressions from the report.
I will review it over the weekend and will post my analysis shortly.
Please, also note that until and unless I am provided all written submissions to the Commission that I asked in my FOIL request - which is currently being stalled by the NYS Court Administration - any analysis that I make of the Report will be preliminary, tentative and incomplete, because I am not able to see what was and what was not considered by the Commission from the important issues raised before it, as well as whose arguments the Commission considered and whose arguments the Commission ignored.
As I said, I will start posting my preliminary analysis, issue by issue, next week, and will continue to pressure NYS Court Administration to release to me copies of written submissions to the Commission.
Stay tuned.
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