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● NY Redistricting: New York's high court just ordered the state's redistricting commission to get back to work and draw up new districts map for 2024. Yet while Democrats have long been rooting for exactly this outcome, just how aggressive a new map they can push for is an open question.
In a new piece analyzing the 4-3 ruling from the state's Court of Appeals, Stephen Wolf explains how we got here, just a year-and-a-half after a similarly divided court sided with Republicans in a previous round of litigation.
Wolf also discusses what steps to expect next and why Democrats face potential limits on their ability to draw the lines however they please. One restraint involves a law passed a decade ago that could prevent Democrats from making major tweaks to any commission proposals. The other is judicial in nature: Would the court step back in to block a partisan gerrymander it sees as too one-sided?
