A state judge has ruled against bylaw changes put in place by Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the Brooklyn Democratic Party chair, which were designed to keep her in power amid a leadership challenge.
In a decision Monday, the judge wrote that votes taken in August to approve those changes were “improper.”
Supporters of the lawsuit cheered the decision.
“It certainly means that they no longer have a mandate to do what they’re trying to do right now,” Mark Hanna, an attorney, said. “You can’t just try to overturn the results of an election through parliamentary trickery and procedural nonsense when we’ve established
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