Blue state mocked after 'Sex and the City' actress tapped to recommend top judges

New York State is drafting insult aft nan main judge of its highest tribunal appointed "Sex and nan City" character Cynthia Nixon to a committee that screens and recommends candidates for nan state's apical judicial posts.

Nixon, who played lawyer Miranda Hobbes connected nan 2000s deed series, will beryllium 1 of 4 members of nan 12-seat Commission connected Judicial Nomination that are required to not beryllium licensed members of nan New York State Bar to believe rule successful nan Empire State.

She was appointed Thursday by Chief Judge Rowan Wilson.

"Only successful Kathy Hochul’s New York could playing a lawyer connected HBO suffice you to prime nan judges connected our state’s highest court," Rep. Michael Lawler, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital connected Monday.

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Actress Cynthia Nixon speaks to reporters. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

"Selecting far-left activistic character Cynthia Nixon to thief prime New York’s apical judges will not bring ‘Justice In The City,’" remarked nan National Review’s John Fund successful a tweet.

George Washington University rule professor Jonathan Turley added connected X that nan move is nan latest successful a shape wherein nan "New York ineligible strategy continues to make a parody of itself."

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Other online critics mocked nan truth Nixon’s characteristic was a lawyer but that she is not 1 successful existent life.

One posted an image of "ER" character Noah Wyle – who played a expert -- riffing that he could beryllium nan adjacent Surgeon General. "I played nan portion of an astronaut successful a schoolhouse play erstwhile I was possibly 10 years old. Should I hole my resume for NASA?" different wrote.

Saritha Komatireddy, nan Republican challenging state Attorney General Letitia James, said that appointing a "celebrity activistic pinch zero ineligible inheritance to thief style nan early of our judiciary sends nan incorrect connection entirely."

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Padma Lakshmi, Robert De Niro, nan Rev. Al Sharpton and Cynthia Nixon attended nan "No Kings" march connected March 28, 2026, successful New York City. (Andrea Renault/Star Max/GC Images)

"This is portion of a broader inclination successful New York: authorities progressively taking precedence complete nationalist information and communal sense," Komatireddy told nan New York Post.

Nixon is aligned pinch nan Democratic Socialists of America and unsuccessfully ran for politician successful 2018 successful a superior against Andrew Cuomo.

She campaigned for erstwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio successful 2013 and existent Mayor Zohran Mamdani successful 2025.

At slightest 1 Democrat besides sounded disconnected against Nixon’s appointment, appearing to blasted farther-left members of his statement for dispensing pinch Gov. Kathy Hochul’s original nominee to Rowan’s seat.

"The value New Yorkers will salary for nan bigots and haters who took retired nan immensely qualified Justice LaSalle is that Cynthia Nixon now gets to vet nan judiciary. Excelsior!" tweeted Assemb. Kalman Yeger, D-Borough Park, riffing connected nan state’s "Ever Upward" motto astatine nan end.

Hochul settled connected Wilson aft New York State Senate Democrats torpedoed her information of chap Democrat Hector LaSalle to lead nan court’s highest chair for appearing excessively blimpish and amid guidance from activistic and labour groups.

Republicans will besides get their changeable astatine appointing a personnel to nan committee alongside Nixon.

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Actress Cynthia Nixon said extracurricular nan White House connected Nov. 27, 2023, successful Washington, D.C., arsenic she announced a hunger onslaught calling for a imperishable ceasefire successful nan Israel-Hamas warfare and urged President Joe Biden to extremity U.S. subject assistance to Israel. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, R-Niagara Falls, has been allotted 1 assignment pursuing a caller status vacancy, according to the Albany Times-Union.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Nixon via nan Commission and nan Senate Republicans’ agency for comment.

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The apical Republican connected nan New York Senate Judiciary Committee told Fox News Digital that Nixon's prime should "alarm each New Yorker" that governmental activism appears to beryllium "a request for information to service connected nan bench."

"The assignment of a far-left, non-lawyer, Hollywood character to nan Commission connected Judicial Nomination further reinforces nan truth that nan courts of New York person go wholly partisan," said Sen. Anthony Palumbo of Suffolk.

"We should each beryllium outraged by nan maltreatment of this branch of authorities that is expected to beryllium immune from politics."

With Nixon now serving connected nan commission, she will thief measure and urge early Court of Appeals nominees to nan governor, a domiciled that could let progressive critics' objections to LaSalle to proceed influencing nan state's highest tribunal agelong aft that confirmation conflict ended.