New York judge strikes down Democratic-drawn maps

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

A New York judge on Thursday struck down the state’s new congressional and legislative maps as defying a voter-backed constitutional amendment that aimed to end partisan gerrymandering, dealing a blow to Democrats hoping to hold onto their fragile majority in the House this November.

State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister in Steuben County ordered the state legislature to draw bipartisan maps by April 11 or the court will appoint an independent map drawer to do it. The state will appeal the decision, triggering an automatic stay until the state appeals court takes it up.

New York Democrats drew a new congressional map with boundaries that could gain their party as many as three new seats, a crucial advantage at a time when the House majority will come down to just a handful of wins.

This is the latest in a series of redistricting disappointments Democrats have faced in recent weeks after what had been several initial legal wins. A Maryland judge invalidated a Democratic-drawn congressional map, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Wisconsin court-approved legislative maps that added a new majority-Black district, and an Ohio map that heavily favored Republicans, thrown out by the state Supreme Court, is now expected to remain in place for 2022.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/31/new-york-judge-strikes-down-democratic-drawn-maps/

[DarthDem]

1. DOA on appeal.

n/t

[Budi]

2. McAllister won the seat 2017, filed with Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties.

Patrick McAllister is a judge for the Steuben County Surrogate's Court in New York. McAllister won the seat in the general election on November 7, 2017.
He filed with the Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties.

https://ballotpedia.org/Patrick_McAllister

Figures he'd ratfk the Democratic Party of NY.

Hope his ruling gets overruled.
🤬

[onlyadream]

3. Dang!

The euphoria of ditching Lee Zeldin didn’t last long.

[Polybius]

4. It was obvious that it would be struck down

Staten Island was not gonna change after all these years.

[PortTack]

5. Just read a tweet by Marc Elias that said NY will immediately appeal

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Gdamn Republicans

[ramblin_dave]

7. Per Marc Elias -

"For the 100th time, this decision is not going to go into effect. As soon as the state appeals, it is stayed automatically by law until that appeal is done.

The judge who issued this order is an elected Republican in the reddest county in the state."

Link to tweet

[OneCrazyDiamond]

8. "The Judge" should get the memo.

The Supreme Court said gerrymandering was A-O-K. That means we get to do it too.

[former9thward]

9. In various parts of the country both parties have had their maps tossed for extreme gerrymandering..

It is still an issue that has not been defined well legally.