Bipartisanship stumbles on New York redistricting panel
2 years, 11 months ago

Bipartisanship stumbles on New York redistricting panel

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Democrats on New York’s redistricting commission threw up their hands Monday, a day before a bipartisan panel — apparently in name only — was to submit redrawn congressional boundaries to state lawmakers. “It’s unfortunate that New York’s so-called redistricting reform has created redistricting gridlock,” Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mapping Service, said Monday. The PAC urged Democratic lawmakers in the statehouse “to reject a false ‘bipartisan’ framework that demands compromise with the far right ideology of today’s New York Republicans.” The 2014 voter referendum banned partisan gerrymandering, and said the redistricting maps could not favor or disfavor political parties or candidates. “It’s very difficult to challenge redistricting plans in New York because courts have provided a lot of deference to state legislatively drawn maps,” Wice said.

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Gerrymandering in 2024: How "deeply steered" districts benefit Republicans
2 months, 4 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 …

New York gets a new congressional map that gives Democrats a slight edge in fight for House
10 months, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 3 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
11 months 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 Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings
11 months, 1 week ago

Wisconsin Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. While Republicans argue that the consultants’ findings are unsound, Democrats asked the court on Thursday to adopt one of their maps that the consultants found were “nearly indistinguishable.” The stakes are huge …

Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Wisconsin redistricting experts tell Supreme Court Republican map proposals are gerrymanders

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine maps redrawing state legislative districts said Thursday that plans submitted by the Republican Legislature and a conservative law firm are partisan gerrymanders, but they stopped short of declaring the other four maps constitutional. “While this is just one step in this process, today is an important day for …

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats
1 year ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps in redistricting case brought by Democrats

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities. “Because the current state legislative districts contain separate, detached territory and therefore violate the constitution’s contiguity requirements, we enjoin the Wisconsin Elections Commission …

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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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 …

Appeals court orders new congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats
1 year, 6 months ago

Appeals court orders new congressional lines in New York, a potential boon for Democrats

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — A mid-level state appeals court on Thursday ordered new congressional lines be drawn for New York, a ruling that could benefit Democrats in the 2024 fight for control of the U.S. House. The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court and directed a state redistricting commission to start work on new proposed state …

SC Republicans to appeal redistricting case to Supreme Court
1 year, 11 months ago

SC Republicans to appeal redistricting case to Supreme Court

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal appeals court has denied South Carolina Republicans’ motion for a stay in the ongoing challenge over the state’s congressional district map. If the Supreme Court takes the case and affirms the federal panel’s ruling, the state’s coastal 1st District will not be redrawn until 30 days after the high court’s final decision. After the new …

Group: N.C. request for redistricting rehearing ‘frivolous’
1 year, 11 months ago

Group: N.C. request for redistricting rehearing ‘frivolous’

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — An advocacy group that sued over redistricting lines in North Carolina told state Supreme Court justices Monday that previous rulings that blocked legislative and congressional district maps as illegal partisan gerrymanders should be left intact. Common Cause filed a response to Republican General Assembly leaders’ request earlier this month that the state’s highest court rehear redistricting lawsuits. …

NY Assembly primaries to proceed; court orders new 2024 maps
2 years, 7 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 …

New York’s hasty redistricting rewrite draws ire of locals
2 years, 7 months ago

New York’s hasty redistricting rewrite draws ire of locals

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — New Yorkers pride themselves on the dynamism of their metropolis, where it can feel totally different on the next block, where tourists walking in Chinatown quickly find themselves in Little Italy, where a neighborhood can be a proxy for a lifestyle or worldview. The retooling of the state’s political district maps was taken over this spring by …

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 …

Panel approves another New Hampshire redistricting plan
2 years, 7 months ago

Panel approves another New Hampshire redistricting plan

Associated Press  

CONCORD, N.H. — House and Senate negotiators in New Hampshire approved yet another congressional map Monday with time running out to meet both legislative and judicial deadlines. Under the plan approved by the committee Monday, the 1st District would cover the southeast corner of the state while the 2nd District would cover the western half of the state and the …

Court outlines approach if NH redistricting effort fails
2 years, 8 months ago

Court outlines approach if NH redistricting effort fails

Associated Press  

CONCORD, N.H. — The task of redrawing New Hampshire’s two congressional districts shifted to a handful of lawmakers Thursday, while the state Supreme Court outlined its approach should that effort fail. He’s also criticized a plan the House passed last week that would clump together communities along the I-93 corridor and shift more than 40% of the population into a …

Judge declines to toss New York Assembly redistricting maps
2 years, 8 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, 8 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, …

Missouri House passes new congressional redistricting plan
2 years, 8 months ago

Missouri House passes new congressional redistricting plan

Associated Press  

— With time running short, the Missouri House on Monday passed a newly proposed map for the state’s eight congressional districts that — if the Senate agrees — could be used in elections later this year. Though Republicans hold large majorities in the state Capitol, Missouri is one of the last states still struggling to enact a congressional redistricting plan …

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 …

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 …

Court rejects GOP redistricting plans in NC, Pennsylvania
2 years, 10 months ago

Court rejects GOP redistricting plans in NC, Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a victory for Democrats, the Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional districting plans. In separate orders late Monday, the justices are allowing maps selected by each state’s Supreme Court to be in effect for the 2022 elections. The justices provided no explanation for their actions, …

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now
2 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now

NPR  

Supreme Court stays out of key state rulings on partisan gerrymandering, for now Enlarge this image Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to intervene in redistricting disputes in North Carolina and Pennsylvania ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Republican-aligned groups then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state court decisions and …

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps
2 years, 11 months ago

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats Friday, declaring that state courts had authority to throw out lines engineered to secure a long-term Republican advantage in an otherwise closely divided state. The court’s decision reversed a ruling last month from a panel of three trial judges …

Democrats make surprising inroads in redistricting fight
2 years, 11 months ago

Democrats make surprising inroads in redistricting fight

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Democrats braced for disaster when state legislatures began redrawing congressional maps, fearing that Republican dominance of statehouses would tilt power away from them for the next decade. “The Democratic leadership and those on the far left that run the show in Albany, they’re hellbent to take this process over to derail the commission, and to have the …

Criticism resumes of proposed redistricting maps in Virginia
3 years ago

Criticism resumes of proposed redistricting maps in Virginia

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Some residents and politicians criticized proposed redistricting maps for Virginia on Friday, telling the state’s Supreme Court that many communities would see their voting strength diluted by seemingly arbitrary political boundaries. Virginia’s Supreme Court is redrawing the state’s congressional and legislative maps after a new bipartisan redistricting commission failed to agree on maps earlier this year. Maurice …

US Supreme Court won’t end Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit
3 years, 1 month ago

US Supreme Court won’t end Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court this week rejected a lawsuit from Wisconsin Republicans seeking to kill a redistricting case brought by Democrats, keeping hope alive for liberals that they can seek to block GOP-drawn maps through the federal courts. They wanted the Supreme Court to dismiss the Democrats’ case, which attempts to have federal courts draw the state’s political boundary lines. …

Democrat Evers vetoes Republican-drawn redistricting
3 years, 1 month ago

Democrat Evers vetoes Republican-drawn redistricting

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers followed through Thursday on his promise to veto the Republican-drawn redistricting plans, calling the maps “gerrymandering 2.0.” The move officially shifts the fight over the once-a-decade job of drawing new political boundary lines for legislative and congressional districts to the courts. The last three times redistricting took place in Wisconsin under divided …

Washington state panel fails to draw new political maps
3 years, 1 month ago

Washington state panel fails to draw new political maps

Associated Press  

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission failed to meet its deadline for redrawing political maps, meaning the task will now be taken up by the state Supreme Court. “Last night, after substantial work marked by mutual respect and dedication to the important task, the four voting commissioners on the state redistricting commission were unable to adopt a districting …

Colorado Supreme Court approves new congressional districts
3 years, 2 months ago

Colorado Supreme Court approves new congressional districts

Associated Press  

Denver — Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday approved the state’s new congressional map, rejecting arguments from civil rights groups that the redistricting plan deprives Latinos of a fair say in congressional elections. The map from the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission preserved the state’s 4-3 split between Democratic and Republican-leaning house districts, while adding an eighth in the suburbs north of …

Race-blind redistricting? Democrats incredulous at GOP maps
3 years, 2 months ago

Race-blind redistricting? Democrats incredulous at GOP maps

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A decade ago, North Carolina Republicans redrew their legislative districts to help their party in a way that a federal court ruled illegally deprived Black voters of their right to political representation. Several publicly released congressional maps dilute Democratic votes by splitting the state’s biggest city, Charlotte — also its largest African American population center — into …

New redistricting committee all but gives up map effort
3 years, 2 months ago

New redistricting committee all but gives up map effort

Associated Press  

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Virginia’s new bipartisan redistricting committee all but gave up its effort to draw new congressional maps after committee members could not find consensus on what constitutes a politically fair map. Wednesday’s failure came after Democratic and Republican map drawers took their final shots at drawing maps that could garner bipartisan support. Ultimately, Democrats favored a map …

National Democratic group defends Oregon’s congressional map
3 years, 2 months ago

National Democratic group defends Oregon’s congressional map

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s new congressional districts are receiving national attention as a Democratic group pushes back against Republican claims that the state’s political boundaries are gerrymandered. With the filing, the NDRC is seeking to insert itself into a fight that began last week, when former Secretary of State Bev Clarno and three other Republicans sued to challenge the map, …

Expert: Michigan redistricting panel can make maps fairer
3 years, 3 months ago

Expert: Michigan redistricting panel can make maps fairer

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — An expert told Michigan’s redistricting commission Friday that some of its draft congressional maps would be fairer to Democrats than current gerrymandered seats but that legislative districts — especially in the House — would still favor Republicans. “Using these metrics, trying to go back in and make those adjustments to have an impact on these scores, would …

The redistricting wars have begun. Who’s winning so far?
3 years, 3 months ago

The redistricting wars have begun. Who’s winning so far?

LA Times  

Of all the political exercises that shape people’s lives in the U.S., redistricting may take the prize for the most unbalanced ratio between the stakes and the amount of attention the public pays. The good news for them is that even though Republicans continue to control the process in more states, they likely won’t be able to use this year’s …

How Political Parties Gerrymander In Texas And New York : Consider This from NPR : NPR
3 years, 3 months ago

How Political Parties Gerrymander In Texas And New York : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

Redistricting: What Happens When The Party With Power Gives Themselves More Enlarge this image toggle caption Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images Like lawmakers across the country, the Republican majority in Texas is getting ready to redraw the lines that define state and congressional voting districts. Those lines cement the shape of political power in the state for the next …

In redistricting, big say for big cities in DC power balance
3 years, 3 months ago

In redistricting, big say for big cities in DC power balance

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — As political muscle goes, bigger doesn’t always mean better. While both New York and Illinois are losing congressional seats, their urban booms mean the newly drawn districts are likely to favor Democrats, adding to the party’s national total and making up for probable losses elsewhere. Republican-controlled states across the Sunbelt gained four U.S. House seats — as …

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