e the voluntary intoxication exclusion and bring Jane Doe closer to the justice she deserves. 

Here's the latest on the  Cornell 7' frat probe:

The pressure campaign comes amid fury surrounding seven male Cornell University fraternity brothers accused in a recent civil case alleging the 2024 gang-rape of a drugged-up female student, only referred to in court papers as Jane Doe.

The young men have not been criminally charged thanks to what the woman's lawyer and critics call a comedy of errors involving campus police, the upstate Tompkins County prosecutor and the prestigious Ivy League school.

5 Messages in a Chi Phi group chat that discuss the alleged rape. Obtained by NY Post

Matthew Van Houten, Tompkins' embattled DA, acknowledged the state's legal loophole in a lengthy statement last week when explaining why he did not bring charges against the men in 2024. He announced last week that he would reopen a probe into the woman's accusations.

Greenberg said Hochul, a Democrat running for re-election to a second term Nov. 3, has failed to show the leadership needed to persuade fellow Democrats in the state Assembly to close the loophole.

The Democratic-led state senate has passed the bill numerous times, only to be blocked in the assembly.

 Hochul has been asked to close the loophole since she became governor, and she refused to do it,  Greenberg said of the gov - who first rose to the highest office in the state when Gov. Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign over sex-harass allegations, which he continues to deny.

The advocate also called the Democratic-led assembly  pro-criminal socialists. 

Hochul's office, when asked for comment by The Post on Sunday, declined to say anything except to note the governor Friday urged Albany lawmakers to close the loophole, although she balked at the notion of calling an emergency session for it.

The legislature adjourned its Albany session for the year in June.

 Here in New York, we'll work with the legislature. The timing will be resolved, but at minimum, I would say this is something we could easily take up early in the session,  Hochul said Friday, referring to the regular 2027 legislative session.

 There's legislation that has passed one of the houses. We can take a look at that, talk to the sponsors, but find out, in light of what we've learned: Are there any other glaring deficiencies in state law? 

Lacking confidence in Van Houten, Hochul also has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James to review the Cornell case for potential prosecution.

5 Hochul appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor in the  Cornell 7  case. Robert Miller for NY Post

Heastie meanwhile last week announced the formation of a special  working group  to consider legislation in reaction to the  truly horrifying  Cornell case.

Unlike New York, 25 states - from conservative Texas to liberal California - as well as Washington, DC, have laws in place that protect the accuser if their ability to consent to sex was compromised even by voluntary intoxication.

Nineteen states, including New York, have rape or sexual-assault laws that consider intoxicated victims to be mentally incapacitated - but only if they became drunk or drugged without their knowledge or consent.

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Opposition to closing New York's loophole has come from criminal defense lawyers who believe the bill under consideration is  simply too vague to be fairly enforced  and  fails to provide  objective guidance as to when a partner is  too intoxicated to legally agree to engage in sexual conduct,  said the NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in a recent statement to the Washington Post.

But state Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Bronx), who sponsored the proposed legislation in the lower house to close the voluntary intoxication loophole, said he's been hearing from more lawmakers now willing to support his bill since the wrenching Cornell scandal has gone public.

The state's legislative leaders have a dual responsibility in the Cornell case.

Aside from their governmental duties, Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Heastie are ex-officio members of Cornell's Board of Trustees.

Cornell is not just an elite Ivy League institution.

It operates four different SUNY, or public, state colleges dealing with agriculture, labor relations, veterinary medicine and ecology and gets about $200 million in state funding per year.

Hochul did call the legislature into an emergency session in June of 2022 to pass gun safety laws responding to a US Supreme Court ruling that concluded New York's conceal-and-carry restrictions violated the 2nd Amendment.