Legislator Who Backed N.Y. Bill Used Against Trump Now Opposes It After The Tables Turned on Him
5:09 PM on May 07, 2024
A New York State Senator who supported a sex crimes bill that allowed E. Jean Carroll to go after former president Donald Trump now calls the legislation unconstitutional after a former colleague accused him of rape, reported the New York Post.
N.Y. State Sen. Kevin Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat, vocally supported the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) in a 2021 vote, which Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) signed into law in May 2022, but it was allowed to lapse in November 2023.
The now-expired New York law opened a one-year temporary window for victims of sexual assault to pursue civil actions against their alleged attackers in cases, which had already exceeded the state's statute of limitations.
The act was passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature to allow litigants like Carroll to go after Trump with 30-year-old accusations that saw the former president hit with severe financial penalties.
Parker was accused of allegedly raping Olga Jean-Baptiste in her home in 2004 while she was working with the State Senator on Haitian relief efforts.
Jean-Baptiste made the allegations last November, just before the ASA expired.
Hochul refused to call for the Democrat to step down after the news broke, despite claiming to be disturbed by the news.
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