Jessica Ramos: “Some of the judges in court are elected, like civil court…”

“Yes, I do sit on the Judiciary Committee. And what that means is that I'm one of the senators who gets to vote on who our judges are. Some of the judges in court are elected, like civil court judges or Supreme Court judges here for Queens county, but on the state level, and especially for the Court of Claims, we in the state legislature get a vote. And so we have been working very hard to bring a lot of diversity to the bench, making sure that, you know, all of the different levels of courts are …” (14:02–14:21)

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