Dems oppose Hochul's bail-reform rollback, leader says Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to roll back New York’s controversial bail-reform law hit a major roadblock Wednesday when the leader of the state Senate said Democratic lawmakers were “absolutely” opposed to the idea. “I think the general sense is that nobody in our conference is wanting to go backwards,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) told reporters in Albany. Meanwhile, Assembly Democrats held a heated, three-hour caucus meeting Tuesday night during which progressive members defended the bail-reform law while moderates, mostly from suburban districts, said changes were needed, sources said. Hochul’s plan, first reported by The Post, would let judges consider defendants’ criminal records and past use or possession of firearms before setting or denying bail. It would also expand the number of offenses for which bail could be set and allow teens caught with guns to be prosecuted in Criminal Court instead of Family Court, reversing provisions signed into law by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. __________________________ These are common sense measures.