Mayor Adams tapped Giuliani administration alum Randy Mastro on Thursday to become his new top deputy at City Hall, an appointment that’s expected to spark controversy amid the mayor’s

Randy Mastro, who withdrew his nomination for corporation counsel after the City Council strongly objected, will try to help calm the turmoil in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration.

The ruling caps a protracted battle over who is permitted to vote in New York City’s municipal elections and puts an end, for now, to the fight to enfranchise more than 800,000 noncitizens who were legally living, working or going to school in the five boroughs.

New York state’s top court put an end Thursday to New York City’s effort to empower noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.

The Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that had declared unconstitutional the city’s bid to allow noncitizens to vote.