NYS Senator Bonacic delegated to his counsel authority to reject oral testimony applications to his attorney Jessica Cherry

I called the office of Senator Boracic today, inquiring how to get an invitation to testify in the confirmation hearing AGAINST confirmation of Janet DiFiore for the position of New York State Court of Appeals.

I was immediately told that Jessica Cherry (Sen. Bonacic's counsel) does not accept applications for oral testimony, only written submissions.

That is not what the public notice for the confirmation hearing of Janet Difiore on NYS Senate's webpage says, right now:

A witness contacted me who told me that the witness talked to Senator Bonacic' office yesterday, including to his secretary Tania and his counsel Jessica Cherry, and that they said that Senator Bonacic has a policy to allow ONLY BAR ASSOCIATIONS to offer testimony at confirmation hearings.

I filed a FOIL request with NYS Senate today asking for a list of things, such as:

I also filed a written submission and request for oral testimony indicating that I am opposed to elevation of Janet DiFiore as Chief Judge of New York State Court as a witness of gross, deliberate and continuous violations of constitutional rights of criminal defendants that I witnessed as a criminal defense attorney when I represented a client in Westchester County in 2014, see also my blog here.

I will report on this blog how the NYS Senate answers my FOIL request.

If all who are allowed to testify in the confirmation hearing of Janet DiFiore are attorneys, they are interested witnesses, because their financial well-being rests in their law licenses, and thus they will be in fear of losing their livelihoods if they testify against Janet DiFiore, while she will be confirmed despite such testimony; so, of course, they will be testifying in support of her, and such a policy of invitations for oral testimony, picking for invitation only those who support the nomination and not those who oppose it, smacks of corruption, Senator Bonacic.

By the way, at about 9:30 am today (when I called Sen. Bonacic' office), the secretary told me that Jessica Cherry will call me back, because at that time she was "on the other line".

3 hours later, Jessica Cherry still did not call me back.

That must be one long telephone conversation - at taxpayers' expense.