The maps done by the states majority Democrats would heavily favor Democrats House seats…
Those seat’s could be effective in narrowing any Republican majority come next year…
The case was decided by one Appeals court…
It’s being appealed to the state highest court by Democrats….
The decesion did affirmed the state’s lawmakers ability to draw up maps…..
On Thursday, the judges from the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court ordered the Democrat-led Legislature to promptly redraft the map by April 30 or leave the task to a court-appointed neutral expert. The judges were largely silent on another key question at stake: whether some of the primaries scheduled for June should be postponed until August to accommodate new districts.
The congressional lines in question, adopted by Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature in February, would give Democrats a clear advantage in 22 of the state’s 26 congressional districts by shifting voters favorable to their party into redrawn seats on Long Island and Staten Island and in Central New York, and packing Republicans in a smaller number of districts. Republicans currently hold eight districts on a map that was drawn by a court-appointed special master in 2012.
State leaders did emerge with some good news from the latest ruling. The panel rejected more sweeping parts of the decision by the lower-court judge, Patrick F. McAllister of Steuben County, that held that lawmakers lacked the authority to draw any maps at all after New York’s newly created redistricting commission failed to agree on a plan for the state.
As a result, the appeals court ruling reinstated State Senate and Assembly maps that Justice McAllister had thrown out…..
New York’s being ‘fair’ on redistricting screws Democrats …….
New York Maps Thrown Out
New York’s highest court has thrown out the state’s new congressional and legislative district maps, potentially pushing the 2022 primaries into late summer.
A special master — not the Democratic-controlled legislature — will now draw a new House map.