The Albany Update with Jason McGuire

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Gov. Kathy Hochul came out swinging against Texas’ new abortion bill. In doing so, she made it clear that she is fully committed to the same abortion-expanding agenda as her predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Then, in a cost-saving initiative, the state is considering forcing parents of some special needs adults to make a difficult decis...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. While a Texas pro-life bill dominated much of the news last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is promising a vote on a pro-abortion bill when Congress returns from its break. Today, we’ll tell you more about that legislation. Then, the New York State Department of Health took an action last week that means private businesses wil...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. God bless, Texas! A new law in that state outlawed abortion after a baby’s beating heart can be detected. As the left loses its collective mind over the matter, the politics of abortion has moved front and center again. Then, last week Albany held an extraordinary session of the State Legislature, that is a session of the Legislature...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. It was a busy week in Albany as Gov. Kathy Hochul took the helm, delivered her first address as Governor, and named State Senator Brian Benjamin (D-Manhattan) as her pick for Lt. Governor. In today’s program we’ll tell you more about both our new Governor and Lt. Governor and discuss the priorities of the new administration. Then, the...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. You’re probably noticing the prominence of transgender ideology in our culture. You’re also no doubt wondering where it’s coming from and why we’re hearing so much more about it. Are there root causes? We’ll discuss. Then, the NYCLU is demanding that a proposed New York Catholic hospital perform abortions. I thought this branch of the...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. He may have already announced his resignation, but we need to talk about Governor Andrew Cuomo. Sure, the media is after him today, but they helped create the man. We’ll reflect on the media’s role in puffing up Andrew Cuomo. Then, with Andrew Cuomo’s role as governor drawing to a close. What should we know about Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Some weeks are just big weeks in the statehouse—and this was one of them. State Attorney General Letitia James released her report regarding Governor Andrew Cuomo. It turns out that the Governor is allegedly a serial sexual harasser. Now, he’s fighting for his political life. Could this be the undoing of Andrew Cuomo? Then, the U.S Se...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. First up today, we look at the main brief filed in a major abortion case out of Mississippi, known as the Dobbs case. Then, continuing in the pro-life vein, there is an effort to unify the movement through a new flag representing the pro-life movement. Third, Governor Andrew Cuomo has escaped a federal probe of the nursing home deaths...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. No doubt you’ve been hearing more about Democratic Socialism, but what is it and should Christians be concerned about it? We think so, and we’ll explain why in today’s episode. Then, we’ll get a bit into the weeds of electoral politics as we discuss redistricting and why it matters for not only the next statewide election, but also th...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s begin today’s program by looking at a federal effort to strip the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life protections from a proposed federal spending bill. Then, leftists in the State Legislature are opposing a plan by the state to allow Chick-fil-A restaurants to operate at rest stops and travel plazas on the I-90. Following that, a...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s begin today’s program by looking at two recent Supreme Court decisions, one is widely seen as a refusal to properly recognize religious liberty, while the other was a real win for donor confidentiality—especially in the current cancel culture climate. Then, the state hasn’t even gotten its recreational weed regulations out and a...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. The New York State Legislature’s 2021 regular session came to a close on June 11. Christian New Yorkers have cause for both relief and deep concern in regard to the actions taken by the Legislature this year. The damage done by the Legislature during the 2021 session was much less significant than the damage done in 2019, when the Leg...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s begin today’s program by looking at the recent Supreme Court decision known as Fulton v. City of Philadelphia . What might this decision portend for cases yet to come before the High Court? Then, last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo commemorated and celebrated the tenth anniversary of New York’s legalization of same-sex “marriage” by sig...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s begin today’s program by looking at the recently concluded legislative session. We’ll fill in a few blanks regarding what did and didn’t pass at the tail end of the 2021 session. Then, we’ll go more in depth regarding a piece of the progressives’ criminal justice reform agenda known as the “Clean Slate” Act. Next up, we’ll look...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s begin today’s program by looking a life issue at the federal level. Legislation that seeks to undermine and invalidate over a thousand pro-life laws across America has been introduced. We’ll tell you more about it. Then, our office is still receiving many inquiries regarding the status of the investigations against Governor Andr...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s start today’s program with some international news. Last week it was reported that China is again relaxing its policy regarding how many children a family is permitted to have. Then, a national pro-life organization has launched a major campaign in response to the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will consider a landmark abo...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Let’s start today’s program with some good news. The pandemic has caused more parents to consider homeschooling and private school options for their families’ educational needs. Fewer parents are relying on public schools for their kids. Then, because of a swift public backlash, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is reversing its poli...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Last week, the masks came off the faces of many New Yorkers and it was also the unmasking of Governor Andrew Cuomo. For months, the Governor has been dodging details regarding the contract he signed to publish a book during the height of the pandemic. At the same time, his administration was allegedly fudging the numbers on nursing ho...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. In today’s episode we’ll tell you how the Biden Administration has reversed course from the Trump Administration and will resume ghastly research utilizing aborted babies. Then, we’ll turn to state news and look at an effort one Albany politician is promoting to create a statewide vaccine database. And on a similar topic, Governor And...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. We’re down to the final five weeks of the legislative session and today we’ll tell you about five bills we’re watching in the last lap. First, there was motion last week on the Public University Emergency Contraception Education Act. It has members of the pro-life community concerned. There are also indicators that Planned Parenthood...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. The Biden Administration is wasting no time in rolling back the pro-life advances made during the Trump presidency. This time, it’s targeting the Title X Protect Life Rule. Next, a group of pro-life churches and organizations are taking New York’s requirement that employers provide abortion coverage in health insurance plans to the U....

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Last week, the President of Planned Parenthood released an op-ed indicating that the abortion conglomerate would stop apologizing for its racist history under founder Margaret Sanger. Planned Parenthood is finally reckoning with its past, but it’s still failing to reckon with its present, and that is a problem. Then, in Albany, Planne...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. There is undoubtedly an attempt to remake America in the progressive mold in the modern Democratic Party. Case in point, is the conversation regarding the left’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court with thirteen justices, up four from the present nine. Then, with an eye toward New York City’s mayoral race, we’ll see that the frontrunner...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. Last week, Arkansas became the first state in the nation to ban the performance of gender transition procedures upon minors. At New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, we hope this is the first of many states to come. Then, in Ohio we’ll look at a federal case that protects the free speech rights of faculty at public universities—eve...

Thank you for joining this week’s edition of the Albany Update. For those of you keeping track of the issues surrounding transgender athletes participating in girls’ competitive sports. You might be interested in something strange going on in South Dakota where Gov. Kristi Noem has been practicing the ‘South Dakota Shuffle’. Then, we’ll bring it back home and look at the New York news story of the...