Permits the legislature to increase the number of supreme court justices in any judicial district up to one justice for every thirty thousand people.
This bill proposes an amendment to the New York State Constitution to allow the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district up to one justice for every thirty thousand people in the district. The amendment also allows the legislature to decrease the number of justices, but not below the number authorized by law on the effective date of this article. The change aims to better align the number of justices with the population of each judicial district.
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