The one where the NYC Council met by Zoom for the first time ever, and had to suspend its own rules to legislate through

At the height of New York's COVID-19 catastrophe, the City Council did something it had never done: it met entirely by video. Before any business, Speaker Corey Johnson led tributes to the more than 14,000 New Yorkers already lost, and members mourned their own relatives and colleagues. To legislate remotely at all, the Council first had to suspend its own rules, a motion from Rules chair Karen Koslowitz that, lacking one week's notice, required unanimous consent. Members then advanced an emergency-relief agenda (deed-fraud protection, a right to hotel rooms, liability shields for hospital wor