2020 New York Redistricting

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https://twitter.com/JonCampbellNY/status/1527722526197043201

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Redistricting isn’t over in NY State. Recall that the NYS Assembly maps were struck down and are to be redrawn for 2024.

Today, NYS Supreme Court Justice Laurence Love has ordered that the Independent Redistricting Commission be reconsitituted to redraw these maps:

https://twitter.com/jccoltin/status/1575546495797178368?s=21&t=KAaAhBvz0Rmz9...

This seems to contradict both the Court of Appeals’ logic in the Harkenrider decision and a recent attempt to reconvene the IRC to do a mid-decade redraw of the Congressional and State Senate maps for 2024 that was heard in State Supreme Court in Albany.

Remember - the NYS Supreme Court is actually the lowest court. This decision will likely be appealed.

NYC is also redistricting its 51 city council districts, but that’s another story for another day.

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State constitutions matter.

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State constitutions matter.

They do, but the state constitution doesn't say what Hochul claims it says. That question was settled by the Supreme Court in the early 90's.

I was talking about the specific language in the NY Constitution about redistricting, not Hochul's claims about a floor vote, one way or the other.