Is the gender of the judge's sex partner a new qualification for office - or is it a distracting trick from the unseemly speed of how a judge's death investigation was hushed up?

A "first openly gay judge" was quickly appointed and no less quickly confirmed in New York for its highest court - New York State Court of Appeals.

See him here, sitting when a woman is standing next to him, clapping for him.  But, I guess, while who the judge has sex with is the new qualification for office in the New York judicial system, manners aren't.

Judge Feldman was appointed not only quickly, but too quickly - in fact, 2.5 months passed after the death of Judge Abdas-Salam whose body was found in the Hudson river, and investigation into her death closed less than a month after her death.

Does Cuomo think that appointing a gay man will somehow cover up the unseemly speed of how the investigation into a potential murder of a high-ranking judge was hushed up?