Squadron pans Republican bill prohibiting NYC, state from paying for terror trials
The New York state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that, if approved by the state Assembly, could prevent the city from paying for security during terror trials, according to state Sen. Daniel Squadron (D-Western Brooklyn waterfront and lower Manhattan).
Senate Bill S2617, sponsored by Sen. Andrew J. Lanza (R-Staten Island), prohibits “the expenditure of state, local and public authority moneys relating to any civilian criminal trial of enemy combatants for acts of terrorism in any federal court in the state of New York.”
The bill has passed the Senate every year since 2011, but failed in the Assembly. Its origin is rooted in the 9/11 terror attacks.