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Changing Hands: Recommendations to Improve New York’s System of Gubernatorial Succession
Fordham Law School Rule of Law Clinic, Ian Bollag-Miller, Stevenson Jean, Maryam Sheikh, and Frank Tamberino
Despite the frequency with which the state’s highest executive offices have changed hands, New York is unprepared to deal with a panoply of issues relating to its constitution’s gubernatorial succession provisions. In this report, the Fordham Law School Rule of Law Clinic proposes reforms to address four principal issues with the existing gubernatorial succession provisions: gubernatorial inability, gubernatorial absence, lieutenant governor replacement, and the gubernatorial line of succession.
Date: June 2022
