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Partisan wrangling grinds Senate to a halt

ALBANY - Even though a judge dismissed the lawsuit seeking to void last Monday's coup, the State Senate remained stalled by partisan wrangling. State Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara refused to grant Democrats' request to negate the ouster of Malcolm Smith (D-St. Albans) by 30 Republicans and two rebel Democrats. The judge said it would be wrong for the courts to determine who controls the...

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