Judge rejects New York's redistricting plan, orders new maps

[In It to Win It]

AP via Yahoo News

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled Legislature to redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional.

Judge Patrick McAllister said in a Thursday ruling that maps redrawing the state's congressional districts were gerrymandered to benefit Democrats. McAllister said those districts must be redrawn, along with the legislative districts, in a way that attracted at least some bipartisan support.

McAllister, a state trial court judge, gave lawmakers until April 11 to try again. If their new maps fail to pass muster in the courts again, then the judge said he would order the state to pay for a court-approved expert to redraw the maps.

[getagrip_already]

1. so the republicans with hold support for any plan....

Then the judge pitches it to a republican third party.

Pretty slick route here.

[brooklynite]

2. The maps will be upheld by SCOTUS

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

RUCHO ET AL. v. COMMON CAUSE ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 18–422. Argued March 26, 2019—Decided June 27, 2019*

Voters and other plaintiffs in North Carolina and Maryland filed suits challenging their States’ congressional districting maps as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina plaintiffs claimed that the State’s districting plan discriminated against Demo- crats, while the Maryland plaintiffs claimed that their State’s plan discriminated against Republicans. The plaintiffs alleged violations of the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Four- teenth Amendment, the Elections Clause, and Article I, §2. The Dis- trict Courts in both cases ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and the de- fendants appealed directly to this Court.

Held: Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. Pp. 6–34.

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5. If this is based on state law then not necessarily

NC, for example, saw its districts redrawn both in the case you mentioned and this time around thanks to state court decisions based on state constitution.

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3. State Issue

This will be appealed and this morons order will be blocked pending appeal. The NY Court of Appeals (higher than the state SC) is entirely appointed by Dems. I believe they will find there is nothing unconstitutional. Say what you will about Gerrymandering, we cannot stop until they do.

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4. Making districts more competitive makes them more susceptible to emotions of the masses

This could mean less stability and more legislative flips over successive elections.