A court battle is underway to determine if a New York state ethics panel is in fact ethical.

A judge in Albany recently ruled that the state's newly formed ethics board is actually unconstitutional. It's also not the first time a governor created an ethics oversight panel in the wake of a scandal.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, joined WNYC’s Sean Carlson on "All Things Considered" on Thursday to talk about where the story is going.