A day after he helped file two lawsuits against Gov. Kathy Hochul opposing her decision to indefinitely pause the rollout of congestion pricing, City Comptroller Brad Lander joined “Mornings On 1” to break down the claims in detail.

“The two suits brought yesterday are great,” Lander said Friday. “One is based on the Traffic Mobility Act of 2019 that says the state shall implement congestion pricing and does not give the governor the authority, any authority, to block it.”

“And the other [is] a great environmental lawsuit focused on the right New Yorkers have to clean air, and the goals the state has set to get there,” he added.

The lawsuits are being backed by a coalition of legal experts and special interest groups brought together by Lander last month.

Lander said he believes a judge could start reviewing the suits as soon as September.

The congestion pricing plan would have imposed a $15 base fare for cars with E-ZPass tags entering Manhattan south of 60th Street, with a goal of raising $15 billion for the MTA’s capital plan. The MTA has put on hold $16.5 billion in planned upgrades since the pause.

A spokesperson for Hochul fired back at the lawsuits yesterday, saying in a statement: "Get in line. There are now 11 separate congestion pricing lawsuits filed by groups trying to weaponize the judicial system to score political points, but Gov. Hochul remains focused on what matters: funding transit, reducing congestion, and protecting working New Yorkers."

Lander, for his part, said he was not expecting the response from the governor’s office.

“I’ll be honest, I was surprised by it. We’ve had respectful dialogue with the governor, but to call this weaponizing the judicial system, to use Trump language, when all we’re doing is trying to enforce the laws that the Legislature passed and that the governor adopted was over the top,” he said.