BREAKING: New York's highest court strikes down congressional & state Senate maps

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[Tickle]

1. Wow that's

not good and how do they come up with this?

[SoonerPride]

2. Appeal to SCOTUS who says gerrymandering is OK

We have to fight as ruthlessly as the Republicans do.

[former9thward]

3. SC is unlikely to take the case.

This is a state court (the highest) making a ruling based on state law. SC only involves itself in cases where there is a federal question of law.

[Amishman]

5. yup, SCOTUS has said before they won't get involved in state maps

old article on it when they declined to intervene over PA and NC maps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/supreme-court-voting-maps.html

[Bettie]

10. Didn't they intervene over Wisconsin though?

I seem to recall that.

[In It to Win It]

11. My memory on the details are fuzzy but I believe their intervention was due to a

question of federal law, the Voting Rights Act…. I think.

[In It to Win It]

4. The republican strategy appears to be to run out the clock

Step 1: Spend time creating another partisan map that the state court will likely strike down again

Step 2: Spend time defending the new very-gerrymandered map likely ending in the same result

Step 3: Go to the US district court and say we won’t be able to make a map fast enough and we have to use the map already passed into law by the legislature or else it will severely negatively impact the citizens right to vote.

[brooklynite]

6. No; Court appointed Special Master will do all maps at this point.

[Polybius]

17. Just keep SI the way it's been for years n/t

[brooklynite]

18. You can't

New York loses a House district. Hence all NYS districts must expand. NY 11 is 100% Staten Island plus a portion of Brooklyn. The only way to expand the district is to add more of Brooklyn. The question is: do you go east (into Bensonhurst) or north (into Sunset Park)?

[budkin]

7. Holy shit we are screwed

It's fine for red states but not for blue?

[Tickle]

8. For what it's worth

There are some red states that have been told to redo their districting and they are now going after Florida

[In It to Win It]

9. I hope our chances are good in the Florida Supreme Court when it gets there

[In It to Win It]

14. Republican states tend to have Republican courts

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. What a bunch of horseshit!!💩💩💩

[Greybnk48]

13. Meanwhile in Wisconsin. Our manipulated right wing not so "Supreme" Court

overturned the fair maps that Governor Evers (D) put together and reinstated the gerrymandered right wing maps.

[Marius25]

15. Meanwhile Florida gets to keep their racist map.

Dems continue to pretend that playing fair works in this era.

[In It to Win It]

16. Florida's map is being challenged also but my hopes aren't high for the state Supreme Court

if/when it gets there