While DeSio and Diaz Jr. say the borough president is willing to compliment or criticize the mayor based on
the merits of any given situation or policy, Diaz Jr. and de Blasio have repeatedly clashed this year.
The law should also include an additional criterion
giving broader authority to the courts to account for other factual
situations, such as, «other indicia
of objective baselessness» or «other indicia that no reasonable person would have considered their potential case to have
merit.»