The New York State Senate confirmed Paul Feinman to the New York State Court of Appeals as the successor to Sheila Abdus-Salaam. Feinman who is the court’s first openly gay judge served for the last five years as an associate justice in the appellate division of the Supreme Court in Manhattan. Governor Andrew Cuomo calls Feinman’s confirmation a major step forward for the state’s judicial system

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