New York judge approves new maps for August primaries
2 years, 7 months ago

New York judge approves new maps for August primaries

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrats in New York will face new challenges from Republicans and be drawn into interparty battles under new redistricting maps released late Friday. A rural judge approved the maps that will replace earlier maps that courts found violated the state’s Constitution and set political district boundaries in New York over the next decade, giving Democrats less of an edge in their quest for control of the U.S. House than they originally hoped. U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, who currently represents New York’s 17th congressional district, said he’d run in the 10th Congressional District instead in a crowded field against competitors including former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The maps will be in place starting with this year’s midterm elections, and include a New York City Congressional district centered on Staten Island that would be more favorable to Republicans.

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Gerrymandering in 2024: How "deeply steered" districts benefit Republicans
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Gerrymandering in 2024: How "deeply steered" districts benefit Republicans

Salon  

In 1999, there were 164 House districts where election results were within five points of the national popular vote. The problem, for Democrats, is that two states where they likely had the best opportunity to pick up seats via redistricting, New York and California, have laws preventing them from doing so. Alabama and Louisiana were ordered by a court to …

Judges Reject Map That Would Have Given Louisiana New Majority-Black House District
8 months, 1 week ago

Judges Reject Map That Would Have Given Louisiana New Majority-Black House District

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW ORLEANS — A new congressional district map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected Tuesday by a panel of three federal judges, fueling new uncertainty about district boundaries as the state prepares for fall congressional elections. Polling takes place at the Martin Luther King Elementary School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans …

New Black congressional district in Louisiana bows to politics, not race, backers say
8 months, 3 weeks ago

New Black congressional district in Louisiana bows to politics, not race, backers say

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Politics and race are both factors in a pending court challenge of Louisiana’s new congressional maps. The map creates a new mostly Black congressional district in Louisiana, at the expense of a white Republican incumbent, Rep. Garret Graves, who backed another Republican in the governor’s election last fall. Twelve self-described non-African American voters argued in a lawsuit …

Democrats Blew Their Big Opportunity to Make New York Winnable in 2024
10 months, 1 week ago

Democrats Blew Their Big Opportunity to Make New York Winnable in 2024

Slate  

After over a year in court, millions of dollars on lawyers’ fees, an overhaul of the state’s highest court, and an all-out battle to throw out New York’s congressional districts and replace them with something more favorable for Democrats, the New York legislature, empowered with the ability to flip control of the House single-handedly, voted to confirm new maps, signed …

New York gets a new congressional map that gives Democrats a slight edge in fight for House
10 months, 1 week ago

New York gets a new congressional map that gives Democrats a slight edge in fight for House

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. The lines are similar to both the existing congressional map and a proposal drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission, yet appeared far from the aggressive partisan gerrymander many expected after Democrats took control of the redistricting process earlier this week. Democrats also reversed proposed changes from the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission that would …

New York Democrats propose new congressional lines that could help them in battleground races
10 months, 1 week ago

New York Democrats propose new congressional lines that could help them in battleground races

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Democrats are proposing a new congressional map that could shift a few battleground districts in the party’s favor, potentially giving their candidates an advantage in House races that could determine control of Congress. The plan falls far short of the aggressive gerrymander many expected when Democrats seized control of the state’s unusual mid-decade redistricting process. …

New York Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New York Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own

Hindustan Times  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday rejected a congressional map drawn by the state's bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is leading Democrats' effort to recapture House seats in New York, …

U.S. House of Representatives 2024: New York state redistricting maps could win Democrats a majority in November.
10 months, 2 weeks ago

U.S. House of Representatives 2024: New York state redistricting maps could win Democrats a majority in November.

Slate  

Last week, Democrats in New York scored one big victory on their path toward retaking a House majority with the triumph of Rep. Tom Suozzi in the state’s 3rd District, flipping it from Republican control. If the IRC’s maps are voted down, New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will take over redistricting duty from the nonpartisan body, a political triumph national Democrats …

New York redistricting panel approves new congressional map with modest changes
10 months, 3 weeks ago

New York redistricting panel approves new congressional map with modest changes

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s bipartisan redistricting commission approved a new congressional map Thursday that makes modest changes to three competitive districts but does not substantially alter the rest of the state’s lines. New York’s congressional redistricting process has been closely watched this year because suburban races in the state could have an outsize influence on which party controls the …

Wisconsin Republican leader slams Democrats’ proposed election maps as ‘political gerrymander’
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Wisconsin Republican leader slams Democrats’ proposed election maps as ‘political gerrymander’

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader said Tuesday that he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The map submitted by Republicans would maintain the current 64-35 GOP majority, while other maps would …

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit
1 year ago

THINGS TO KNOW: Deadline looms for new map in embattled North Dakota redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — The clock is running out on a Friday deadline for North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature to draw new legislative boundaries compliant with the Voting Rights Act for two Native American tribes who successfully sued for new lines. A federal judge last month ruled that the state’s 2021 redistricting map violates the landmark 1965 civil rights law in diluting …

How much gerrymandering is too much? In New York, the answer could make or break Dems’ House hopes
1 year ago

How much gerrymandering is too much? In New York, the answer could make or break Dems’ House hopes

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court last week gave Democrats a chance to redraw the state’s congressional districts, a major victory as the party tries to win control of the U.S. House next year. “There’s no hard and fast definition or bright line to define partisan gerrymandering,” said New York Law School professor Jeffrey Wice, who focuses on redistricting. …

New York’s high court orders new congressional maps as Democrats move to retake control of US House
1 year ago

New York’s high court orders new congressional maps as Democrats move to retake control of US House

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the state to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2024 elections, giving Democrats a potential advantage in what is expected to be a battleground for control of the U.S. House. “In 2014, the voters of New York amended our Constitution to provide that legislative districts be drawn by an …

New York’s high court hears redistricting case, as Democrats angle to retake US House
1 year, 1 month ago

New York’s high court hears redistricting case, as Democrats angle to retake US House

Associated Press  

New York’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that could reshape congressional districts in the state, which is expected to be a key battleground next year in the fight for control of the U.S. House. The Court of Appeals hearing in Buffalo came as Democrats want to scrap the state’s district lines after losing congressional seats that helped …

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year
1 year, 2 months ago

North Carolina Republicans pitch Congress maps that could help them pick up 3 or 4 seats next year

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday pitched new maps for the state’s congressional districts starting in 2024 that appear to threaten the reelection of at least three current Democratic U.S. House members. Senate redistricting committee leaders introduced two proposals that would rework the boundary lines for the state’s 14 U.S. House seats. “That’s a hard decision for the …

New Mexico congressional map that was approved by Democrats can stand, a judge says
1 year, 3 months ago

New Mexico congressional map that was approved by Democrats can stand, a judge says

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divided up a politically conservative oil-producing region in New Mexico don’t violate the state constitution, a judge ruled in an order published Friday. “The court ultimately determined that the closeness of the 2022 election in Congressional District 2 — an election where an incumbent Republican and longtime officeholder and …

Bipartisan Ohio commission unanimously approves new maps that favor Republican state legislators
1 year, 3 months ago

Bipartisan Ohio commission unanimously approves new maps that favor Republican state legislators

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s political map-making commission unanimously approved new Statehouse maps Tuesday night, moving a step closer to resolving a long-running redistricting battle. Rob McColley, a Henry County Republican who served on the Ohio Redistricting Commission, said in a statement that the vote proved that bipartisan “good faith negotiations” in the redistricting process produce results, and that he’s “very …

DeSantis purposely dismantled a Black congressional district, attorney says as trial over map begins
1 year, 3 months ago

DeSantis purposely dismantled a Black congressional district, attorney says as trial over map begins

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — On the same day Alabama Black voters scored a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal trial opened in Florida in which lawyers say Republican Gov. “He pressed his argument by sound bite bullying.” The result was a map that helped Republicans earn a majority in the House and left Black voters in north Florida with …

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections
1 year, 7 months ago

New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections

Associated Press  

The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. RACE IN REDISTRICTING The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that Alabama’s congressional districts likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters. It ordered a lower court to impose new U.S. House and state …

EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for Ohio’s unsettled political maps?
2 years ago

EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for Ohio’s unsettled political maps?

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The election contests of 2022 may have been held and decided, but Ohio’s political maps remain far from settled. Voters gave the Ohio Supreme Court “exclusive, original jurisdiction” to decide legal challenges, which included three lawsuits against the legislative maps and two lawsuits against the congressional map. Ohio’s congressional map dispute is now awaiting action in the …

Ohio Supreme Court scraps 2nd GOP-drawn congressional map
2 years, 5 months ago

Ohio Supreme Court scraps 2nd GOP-drawn congressional map

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court rejected a second Republican-drawn map of U.S. House districts as gerrymandered on Tuesday, sending it back for a third attempt to meet constitutional parameters approved by Ohio voters. Despite those failures in court, however, Ohio’s 2022 congressional primaries went forward on May 3 under an earlier invalidated U.S. House map, and its legislative …

NY Assembly primaries to proceed; court orders new 2024 maps
2 years, 6 months ago

NY Assembly primaries to proceed; court orders new 2024 maps

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court is allowing state Assembly elections to proceed this year under redistricting maps drawn by Democrats but ordered lawmakers to revise the maps in time for the 2024 elections. Two Democrats and a Republican had asked the court to invalidate the Assembly maps and move the primary to August or September, so new …

Clashes among New York Democrats after redistricting redo
2 years, 7 months ago

Clashes among New York Democrats after redistricting redo

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state’s congressional maps, scrambling the favorable landscape Democrats hoped to set for themselves this election year. “The time for women stepping aside is over.” Democrat Suraj Patel, a 38-year-old who has unsuccessfully challenged Maloney in the past, is …

Democrats, Republicans fight to a redistricting stalemate
2 years, 7 months ago

Democrats, Republicans fight to a redistricting stalemate

Associated Press  

After nearly a year of partisan battles, number-crunching and lawsuits, the once-a-decade congressional redistricting cycle is ending in a draw. “It’s almost perfect stasis,” said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard law professor who follows congressional redistricting. “If we’re fighting to a draw on a map that everyone agrees is good for Republicans, that’s good for Republicans,” said Adam Kincaid, executive director …

Democrats and Republicans fight to a draw in national redistricting battle
2 years, 7 months ago

Democrats and Republicans fight to a draw in national redistricting battle

LA Times  

After nearly a year of partisan battles, number-crunching and lawsuits, the once-a-decade congressional redistricting cycle is ending in a draw. “If we’re fighting to a draw on a map that everyone agrees is good for Republicans, that’s good for Republicans,” said Adam Kincaid, executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, which coordinates redistricting for the party. World & Nation …

New York judge approves congressional map, throwing Democrats into disarray
2 years, 7 months ago

New York judge approves congressional map, throwing Democrats into disarray

Hindustan Times  

A New York judge approved a new congressional map that pits two veteran Democratic incumbents against one another and boosts Republican odds of capturing more seats in November's midterm elections, further endangering Democrats' fragile US House majority. Justice Patrick McAllister, a judge in rural Steuben County, signed off on the map just before midnight on Friday, weeks after New York's …

New York court releases new congressional map after Democratic-drawn lines were blocked
2 years, 7 months ago

New York court releases new congressional map after Democratic-drawn lines were blocked

CNN  

CNN — New York Judge Patrick McAllister approved the court-appointed special master’s new congressional map for the state late Friday night. However, some other member-vs.-member primaries seem to have been avoided as Rep. Mondaire Jones, who currently represents a suburban seat north of New York City, announced he would run in the new 10th District – a seat that merges …

Where members of Congress are pitted against each other in 2022 primaries
2 years, 7 months ago

Where members of Congress are pitted against each other in 2022 primaries

CNN  

CNN — It’s rare for an incumbent member of Congress to lose a primary. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went as far as to say Maloney should step down as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee if he runs against a fellow incumbent. In a letter urging the court to reconsider the map, the DCCC argued that four of …

Missouri governor OKs new US House map favoring Republicans
2 years, 7 months ago

Missouri governor OKs new US House map favoring Republicans

Associated Press  

Mike Parson signed new U.S. House districts into law Wednesday that are expected to shore up Republican strength in the state’s most competitive congressional district ahead of this year’s elections. Parson’s signature on the redistricting legislation capped a rocky process that revealed deep schisms between Republican leaders in the state House and Senate and some conservative GOP lawmakers, who had …

Court expert draws more GOP-friendly New York political maps
2 years, 7 months ago

Court expert draws more GOP-friendly New York political maps

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A court-appointed expert released a draft of new congressional maps for New York that are more favorable to Republicans than the original gerrymandered political maps drawn by Democrats. Last month, New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled those maps and maps for the state Senate were unconstitutional and failed to abide by an anti-gerrymandering process …

Judge declines to toss New York Assembly redistricting maps
2 years, 7 months ago

Judge declines to toss New York Assembly redistricting maps

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York judge refused Wednesday to throw out new political maps setting the boundaries of state Assembly districts, saying even though they were drafted improperly, opponents had waited too long to join the lawsuit challenging them in court. Previous court rulings struck down the party’s favored new maps for state Senate and U.S. House districts as …

It’s official: NY congressional primary moving to Aug. 23
2 years, 7 months ago

It’s official: NY congressional primary moving to Aug. 23

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — It’s official: New Yorkers will have to wait until August to vote in the primary elections for U.S. representatives, rather than June, after a federal judge gave his stamp of approval to the delay Tuesday. Pushing back the primary to Aug. 23 would avoid a “chaotic situation” for voters, said U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe of Albany, …

Judge won’t revive NY political maps that favored Democrats
2 years, 8 months ago

Judge won’t revive NY political maps that favored Democrats

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to order New York to hold its congressional and state Senate primaries this spring using district maps declared unconstitutional by state judges, saying a legal effort by Democrats to revive the maps looked unlikely to succeed. A group of voters filed a lawsuit asking federal judges to intervene in New York’s redistricting …

Task of drawing NY political maps falls to judge and scholar
2 years, 8 months ago

Task of drawing NY political maps falls to judge and scholar

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — After New York’s highest court threw out new congressional district maps drawn by the state Legislature, the task of redrawing them has fallen to a rural judge and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Democrats’ hopes of crafting an electoral map heavily favorable to their party suffered a big blow Wednesday when the state Court of Appeals …

New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats
2 years, 8 months ago

New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. The state’s Court of Appeals said the Democratic-led Legislature lacked the authority to redraw congressional and state Senate maps after an independent redistricting commission charged with …

Fight over gerrymandering argued at New York’s highest court
2 years, 8 months ago

Fight over gerrymandering argued at New York’s highest court

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Judges on New York’s highest court peppered attorneys with sharp questions Tuesday as they considered whether to throw out new congressional district maps that Republicans say were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. New York’s governor and legislative leaders deny they bent the rules, but two lower courts have already ruled the district maps were drafted specifically to give Democrats an …

Florida adopts new US election map in likely boost to Republicans
2 years, 8 months ago

Florida adopts new US election map in likely boost to Republicans

Al Jazeera  

A new Florida congressional map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis has been approved by the Republican-led state legislature, setting up a likely advantage for Florida Republicans in November’s US elections. Florida’s congressional map was redrawn as part of a nationwide redistricting process in the United States in which seats in the US House of Representatives are reapportioned to reflect population …

Judge clears way for New Mexico GOP redistricting challenge
2 years, 8 months ago

Judge clears way for New Mexico GOP redistricting challenge

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — A state district judge has cleared the way for the Republican Party of New Mexico to challenge a congressional map that divvies up a conservative area of the state into three congressional districts, rejecting a motion by Democrats who sought to dismiss the case. “The court recognizes that we have strong evidence to support our claim …

Florida lawmakers take up Gov. DeSantis’ congressional map
2 years, 8 months ago

Florida lawmakers take up Gov. DeSantis’ congressional map

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As critics decried a congressional redistricting map submitted by Republican Ron DeSantis as racially motivated and drawn to benefit the GOP, the staff member who crafted the maps told lawmakers Tuesday he didn’t take race or party politics into consideration in preparing it. DeSantis, who is a potential 2024 presidential candidate, has argued the previous map included …

New congressional map approved in Maryland; 1st map dropped
2 years, 9 months ago

New congressional map approved in Maryland; 1st map dropped

Associated Press  

Larry Hogan approved a new congressional map Monday with more compact districts, after a judge struck down a previous map 10 days ago for being a “product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.” The Republican governor, who has long pushed for redistricting reform, described the new map as a “huge improvement” over the one approved over his veto in December by the …

Maryland judge defers decision on new congressional map
2 years, 9 months ago

Maryland judge defers decision on new congressional map

Associated Press  

— A Maryland judge on Friday deferred a decision about the state’s newly redrawn congressional map, noting at a hearing that her ruling striking down the previous map is being appealed by the attorney general’s office to the state’s highest court. Battaglia gave an update on the Maryland case at a court hearing she scheduled after she ruled that the …

Judge rejects New York’s redistricting plan, orders new maps
2 years, 9 months ago

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

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A lower-court judge declared New York’s new congressional and legislative district maps unconstitutional Thursday and ordered the legislature to quickly redraw them, a process that could delay the state’s fast-approaching party primaries. If the Democrat-controlled legislature can’t come up with “bipartisanly supported” maps fast the judge said he would hire his own expert to redraw them, at …

Political mapmaking body approves previously rejected plan
2 years, 9 months ago

Political mapmaking body approves previously rejected plan

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The next set of proposed boundaries for new state legislative districts has arrived at the Ohio Supreme Court, which must decide for the fourth time whether the maps are constitutionally sound. The likelihood of the court approving those maps already appeared uncertain, after the state’s political mapmaking body created them late Monday from a previously rejected set …

Maryland lawmakers scramble to produce new congressional map
2 years, 9 months ago

Maryland lawmakers scramble to produce new congressional map

Associated Press  

— Maryland lawmakers scrambled to approve a new congressional map Tuesday to comply with a court order, after a judge struck down the first map drawn by Democrats this redistricting cycle late last week. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Lynne Battaglia struck down the map Friday, calling it “a product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.” In her order, Battaglia said …

Maryland judge rules new congressional map unconstitutional
2 years, 9 months ago

Maryland judge rules new congressional map unconstitutional

Associated Press  

— A Maryland judge ruled Friday that the state’s new congressional map is unconstitutional, the first Democratic-drawn map to be struck down by a court this redistricting cycle in what the judge called a “product of extreme partisan gerrymandering.” So far courts have intervened to block maps they found to be GOP gerrymanders in North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, infuriating …

Court upholds new maps for Pennsylvania General Assembly
2 years, 9 months ago

Court upholds new maps for Pennsylvania General Assembly

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — New maps of General Assembly districts that reflect the past decade’s population changes in Pennsylvania survived legal challenges Wednesday when the state Supreme Court unanimously cleared the way for candidates to begin circulating petitions to get on the spring primary ballot. “I am proud of the result and very gratified that the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed our …

NC 2nd-chance redistricting finalized; maps now go to court
2 years, 10 months ago

NC 2nd-chance redistricting finalized; maps now go to court

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina legislature on Thursday completed new redistricting plans that Republicans contend will meet fairness directives of state justices who struck down previously approved maps as illegal partisan gerrymanders that penalized Democrats. A map for the state’s 14 U.S. House seats approved by the General Assembly was touted by the GOP for having four highly competitive …

Minnesota courts release new political district maps
2 years, 10 months ago

Minnesota courts release new political district maps

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota panel of five judges released new congressional and legislative district maps on Tuesday, repositioning the state’s political landscape for the next 10 years and setting the stage for November’s midterm elections. Minnesota’s 2nd District in Congress, represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, got smaller and less rural due to increases in suburban population …

Suit: South Carolina GOP chose ‘worst’ map for Black voters
2 years, 10 months ago

Suit: South Carolina GOP chose ‘worst’ map for Black voters

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Civil rights groups have added several congressional districts to a lawsuit over “racially gerrymandered” redistricting maps, accusing South Carolina Republican lawmakers in an amended lawsuit filed Thursday of unconstitutionally redrawing lines so as to disadvantage Black voters. New maps for areas including the 1st, 2nd and 5th Congressional Districts are based on state bills that “represent the …

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