Eric Katz

I have a legislative joke, but it doesn't take effect immediately.

@johnarnold My mail is regularly delayed between when they scan it in through and processing and when it gets to my house. Can't understand why 6 day delivery is sacrosanct!

Of the two tweets I've ever posted that drew the most pushback, one argued that the USPS should shift to 3 day/week letter delivery and the other that the criminal justice reform movement should prioritize making prisons safe over expanding Pell Grants. I stand by both.

@JohnTomlin52 Cope

@ericjkatz This is fake news

Tough but fair.

@JonCampbellNY 😳😳😳

@ericjkatz Eric, I'm telling you -- there's been a marked change for the worse in the last couple days. People have to forcefully push the door back open with all of their weight, and stay there, once it starts to close.

The big news out of the NY Capitol this week is the Senate elevator doors have seemingly developed a mind of their own and are actively trying to murder people.

@erinmdurkin Until DR starts shutting local stores and blaming it on regulations...

If you ban Duane Reade locking things up instead you will get Maduro margins in every neighborhood.

Good stuff from Hochul regulatory reform czar Zoe Jacob's, and for my housers she drops hints of reforms coming soon to the NYS Building Code on single staircase! capitolpressroom.org/2026/03/13/gov…

@mattyglesias In a state like New York where PFL is a companion to disability benefits in the workers comp system, the policing comes from the insurers.

@Rafa_Mangual @CUNYLaw 🙄🙄🙄

@ericjkatz @CUNYLaw Except I’ve debated every willing decarcerationist I’ve come across… perhaps the good judge would like to put his brilliance on display in a respectful exchange of ideas. The invitation has been extended to him. Hope he accepts. Perhaps you can reach out and encourage him.

One of the problems with people like Judge Rowan Wilson—aside from being about as wrong as one can be about criminal justice policy—is that he doesn’t engage with serious people who would vehemently and intelligently disagree with him. Understand that when a school like @CUNYLaw puts these kinds of panels together, the events are almost always designed to create spaces for people on the same side of an issue (the left side) to echo one another and pat themselves on the back. They don’t make room for the prevailing view to be challenged. This is why organizations like the @FedSoc are so important. The truth is that there are many very strong arguments to be made in opposition to the view articulated by the judge. One would think that the countless heinous crimes committed by repeat offenders who could—and should— have been incarcerated rather than on the street would give these people some pause. But that kind of openness to the possibility of being wrong is much less common than it should be among those who’ve never exposed themselves to a meaningful challenge from those who take a different view. But let’s be real for a moment: The problem with the judiciary in New York is *not* that it is too harsh on criminal offenders, but that it is far too lenient. That tendency toward leniency reflected by the comments made during this panel, as well as by the policy environment in which sentencing decisions are made in this state, is deeply misguided and stained by the blood of more crime victims than any sane society should tolerate. If Judge Wilson is up to it, I’d be happy to have a public conversation about the many issues I have with the position he has articulated on matters of criminal justice. nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-…

@dianesavino @JCColtin We'll still have some great French restaurants in Westchester!

@JCColtin That's it, I am moving to Jersey! 😂

New York City CAN ban foie gras, state appellate court rules, finding that the state can't block the city from passing a law just because it might hurt some farms upstate. NYC passed the ban in 2019(!). Caught up in courts ever since. And might still be.

@EjmEj EJ this is twitter nonsense and isn't in either one house. Would expect more diligence from you.

YOU’RE MOVIN’ ON UP: Congratulations to owners of these & other one-family Queens homes valued just over $600k that would be added to the “mansions” subj to NYC real estate transfer tax under state legislative Democrats’ budget proposals.

@Martinascher Thank you for your service to our democracy.

Exciting to the NYVRA at work!

@RyanGirdusky Except the claim is false and didn't happen.

New York politicians will do anything to balance the budget... except cut spending

Shouting for the twitter people- This. Is. Not. True! The only mansion tax proposal in either one-house kicks in for NYC property at the 5m level!

@KennyBurgosNY I don't think this is in either one-house.

@MatthewLWing @EMPIREREPORTNY A pay raise carried by anyone but leadership has a 0% chance.

Top of @EMPIREREPORTNY SHOCK: Proposed pay hike gives NYS lawmakers 26% RAISE Smith & Moses say: -25% chance of passage -5/10 impact More 👉 smithmoses.com/2026/bills/S93…

@poozer87 My favorite version of this was a reporter tweeting "source says [a bill] will be voted on tomorrow in the Senate" and the source was the Active List.

@BenJ_Rosenblatt Bit of a whistling past the graveyard take-away for my two cents.

Some good notes from Rick Hasen here on the #NY11 court ruling. Also worth noting: this ruling does NOT say that NY-11's lines must remain unchanged this cycle. It just grants a stay of the initial ruling pending the appeal in state court/cert in SCOTUS. (1/2)

@NickReisman Looks like a picture of a picture.

The bottom right corner of the photo here is... off? x.com/NYCMayor/statu…