Is It Ok To Do a Coup After a Judge Ordered Leaders Not To Do a Coup if the Judge Said You’re Not a Leader When It Struck Down Your Prior Coup Effort?
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn leaving Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday morning. (Hell Gate)

Is It Ok To Do a Coup After a Judge Ordered Leaders Not To Do a Coup if the Judge Said You’re Not a Leader When It Struck Down Your Prior Coup Effort?

Only the subtlest legal minds will grasp the big questions as the Brooklyn Dems legal battle returns to court.

It's been more than a week since we last checked in on the Brooklyn Democrats. Things have surely sorted themselves out over there, right?

Funny you should ask. The Democrats were back in court Monday morning, attempting to resolve whether the people who held a late-night meeting October 4 purporting to elect a new executive committee for the Brooklyn Democrats under rules multiple courts had already invalidated, after being explicitly barred from holding such a meeting by a court's restraining order, should face any consequences for doing so.

Members of the party's reform bloc, who had won the restraining order barring the party from relying on the invalidated rules changes or convening a meeting to elect a new executive committee, immediately filed a motion to hold outgoing party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, her lawyers at Abrams Fensterman, and everyone who took part in the meeting, in contempt of court. 

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