Kathy Hochul enters the second half of her first elected term as governor of New York with historically low poll numbers and an electorate that appears to have taken a sharp turn to the right. The year ahead presents the state’s chief executive with an almost unimaginable number of political challenges.
Hochul’s first major test of 2025 will come before she is even able to lay out her agenda in the State of the State address. On January 7, 2025, the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, will hear oral arguments in the challenge to the state ethics commission created by Hochul in 2022. The lawsuit challenging the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government comes from an unlikely plaintiff: former governor Andrew Cuomo, whose resignation set the path for Hochul, his lieutenant governor, to rise to the top job.
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