Posted on 04/27/2022 12:04:32 PM PDT by God luvs America
New York's top court on Wednesday rejected the congressional and state Senate maps drawn by the Democratic-led Legislature earlier this year as unconstitutional in a key victory for Republicans.
The 4-3 ruling could upend the scheduled June party primaries and force lawmakers back to the drawing board to draw new maps.
The court found "the enactment of the congressional and Senate maps by the legislature was procedurally unconstitutional, and the congressional map is also substantively unconstitutional as drawn with impermissible partisan purpose, leaving the state without constitutional district lines for use in the 2022 primary and general elections."
The ruling is a victory for Republicans who had challenged the maps in state court on the grounds the new districts favored Democrats and violated the state's constitutional ban on partisan redistricting.
New lines will be now be in the hands of what's known as a "special master" appointed by a lower court this month, according to the ruling.
"With judicial supervision and the support of a neutral expert designated a special master, there is sufficient time for the adoption of new district lines," the court ruled.
Early voting for New York's primary is scheduled to begin June 18, and petitions were already submitted based on the maps approved in February. But the ruling raised the possibility of a moving the primary to August as a result.
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I may be a minority opinion, but on redistricting, we could use computer technology to draw districts which are as geographically compact, and equal in population as possible.
And then, nobody of either political party could claim that there are gerrymandered districts.
There are probably a lot more republican legislatures that have done this in favor of republicans in purple states, and I would hate to see it struck down because of the NY decision...
These maps must have been pretty one sided.
Are judges on this court appointed by liberal New York politicians and/or governor? If so, this is significant if even liberal leaning judges called out the Democrats on such a partisan map.
And the republican legislatures would abide by it while the democrats would find a cheat algorithm. Democrats always find a way to cheat. You would only be hampering republicans.
Well, then there’s a good reason not to use computer technology, if Democrats will still be underhanded using what should be non-partisan methods.
Well, the Constitution gives state legislatures control of selecting representatives to the U.S. House. This decision by the NY Supreme Court gives the courts and a ‘special master’ control of the process in NY State.
This is good for Republicans in NY, but in North Carolina you have the Democratic controlled state Supreme Court throwing out maps drawn up by the Republican controlled legislature.
Win some, lost some either way, but on the whole, probably better to let the state legislatures control the process vs having the courts decide.
This decision is in New York state court, not federal court. So it would have no legal standing relating to any other states.
Marc Elias is the Dem attorney fighting every single red state map. He fights hard and Dem friendly courts overrule every red state map and they have to keep redrawing them. The GOP was supposed to pick up lots of seats due to redistricting but it’s not happening due to Elias’ efforts. He works on this with his team doggedly every day, state after state. . .removing seats for the GOP.
Meanwhile the GOP has no similar attorney like Elias doing the same (fighting the blue states, or purple states with Dem-friendly maps). They just agree to them.
So this NY news is great. Now they should do CA. . .
Ohio is experiencing the same situation in reverse.
The State Supreme Court has rejected 4 maps so far, agrees with Dem claims that the GOP is drawing unfair districts.
Primaries go forward in ten days, without the state races, which will require another primary.
BTW, the court has a GOP majority but is siding with the dims.
New York State has laws in place governing the legislature in the process of redrawing district lines. The court determined those laws were not followed.
These maps must have been pretty one sided.
Are judges on this court appointed by liberal New York politicians and/or governor? If so, this is significant if even liberal leaning judges called out the Democrats on such a partisan map.
They were utterly ridiculous. The new NY-3 would have started in western Suffolk county, though the north shore of Nassau County, Queens County, the southeastern portion of Bronx County, and Westchester County up to the CT line.
The new NY 10 would have meandered its way from western Manhattan through a one or two block wide path of Brooklyn to take away the area around Fort Hamilton, which was formerly part of Staten Island’s district and formed the only red area of NYC.
Your other question - all Court of Appeal judges are appointed by the governor. All 7 are Dem appointees (since we haven’t had a republican governor since Pataki IIRC).
New York Republicans will likely gain 4-5 seats as a result of this decision.
Good news but if no new maps, they either will have to use the old ones, or ignore the the court, and draw whatever districts they want just before election. Democrats will/can do anything to steal any election.
Yeah had similar thoughts. It should be done automatically by an open sourced algorithm that knows nothing of politics and just optimizes for keeping border length between districts small balanced with not splitting population clusters.
The Democrat Party is your enemy and everyone loyal to them is your enemy.
Turnout will be low and angry if people don’t know where to vote.
Check Maureen Oconnor’s bank accounts for some recent large deposits.
Oh wait, I forgot how $0r0$ funneling worked.
Check Maureen O’connor’s family members foundations, for recent deposits coming from inane sounding organizations. /fixed
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