Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is desperately searching for a way back onto the political scene. His COVID policies that killed and covered up the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents should leave him on a permanent blacklist for voters.

Next week, Cuomo will testify in front of the House Oversight Committee about his COVID policies. During the pandemic, Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients and prevented those locations from requiring negative tests from residents before admission. A report found that between late March and early May 2020, those 6,327 admissions were “associated with … possibly more than 1,000 additional resident deaths.