'Egg on our face': New York redistricting mess spooks House Dems

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5. Syracuse.com article about the lower court (Republican) judge who initially declared the maps

unconstitutional and his previously chosen independent expert will be redrawing the maps.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2022/04/rural-judge-college-researcher-tasked-with-redrawing-ny-congressional-districts.html

The high court handed responsibility for creating a new set of maps to state Judge Patrick McAllister — the lower-court jurist who had initially declared the maps unconstitutional. Anticipating that higher courts would agree with him, McAllister had already chosen an independent expert to help him craft the maps, Jonathan Cervas, a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy.

The pair now face a tight deadline to come up with new maps, even as state officials try to figure out what to do about the state’s primary election, scheduled for June 28.