Rule of law ignored on Thanksgiving Day

ALBANY COUNTY — On Thanksgiving Day, the county sheriff said he wasn’t enforcing the 10-person restrictions for gatherings, and the governor downplayed Wednesday night’s United States Supreme Court decision striking down New York’s orders limiting religious gatherings, saying, “It doesn’t have any practical effect.”

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Regional

Sheriffs decry enforcing ban on home gatherings as gov calls for spiritual unity

Albany County’s health commissioner and executive have frequently urged residents to stay home with their immediate families for Thanksgiving. Both McCoy and Whalen have said that they themselves are not gathering with extended family but rather dining just with immediate family members at home.