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The news centers on an internal power struggle within the Brooklyn Democratic Party, led by Kings County Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.

After a reform-minded coalition and progressive challengers picked up enough district leader seats in the June primary to strip the party’s old guard of its majority and threaten Bichotte Hermelyn’s leadership, the existing leadership moved to change the organization’s rules. Rather than accepting the outcome, party leaders hastily altered internal rules and expanded the committee’s voting roles to retain control, drawing heavy criticism from reformers, numerous prominent elected officials, and subsequent legal challenges.