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Breaking: NY Court Sides With Republicans in Massive Blow to Dems' Gerrymander
Spencer Brown | @itsspencerbrown | Posted: Apr 27, 2022 4:10 PM
New York's highest court sided with Republicans on Wednesday in a decision that invalidated Democrats' redistricting map after finding it was gerrymandered in a "partisan" manner to give advantages to Democrat candidates.
The new district map was created and passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature after an independent redistricting commission deadlocked and was unable to reach an agreement on how to draw districts following the 2020 Census.
After the commission failed to reach an agreement on new congressional lines, "[t]he legislature responded by creating and enacting maps in a nontransparent manner controlled exclusively by the dominant political party," the New York appeals court concluded.
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