Ohrenstein v. Thompson

Mahoney, P. J. (concurring).

Although we concur with the result reached by the majority in affirming the judgment of Special Term, we disagree with that portion of the majority’s statement which states that petitioners’ complaint is actually with the Senate Majority Leader’s proposal that a Senator’s vote on each group of bills would be deemed a vote on each item contained in that group, and thereby labels the dispute in this matter as an “internal affair” with which the courts should not interfere. Petitioners are not challenging the procedural moves employed by the Senate leadership which…