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Albany Democrats want to return to highly criticized panel to redraw congressional district boundaries Democrats sayPoliticstrying to catch up with each other in a desperate effort to survive.
A legal brief, filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court this week, is set before the Independent Redistricting Commission after a bipartisan panel predictably stalled on a new map of the legislature and the state legislature earlier this year. It details the Democratic Party's efforts to empower. Ultimately, it left the Democrats largely gerrymandering the tossed line in court.
“As the court — the Appeals Division — ordered the legislative districts to be amended, the plain language of Article 3 [of the State Constitution] begins the constitutional process for the IRC to create a court. Ordered amendments to congressional districts,” read the legal document.
Application,First reported by WSKGmarks the latest twist in the re-election process that has plagued Democrats since state appeals courts withdrew their legislative and legislative preference lines in April.
Court-appointed Special Master Jonathan Selvus then created a new map for the state Senate and Congress, fueling a civil war among New York Democrats .Sean Patrick Maloney,Jerrold Nadler,Carolyn Maloney are embroiled in a tough campaign ahead of the August 23 primary. increase.
But legal expertise kept the assembly line up for months before it was overturned by a court.
Democrats ask court to allow commission to make I am asking for A new map in the hope that it will yield comparatively more favorable results than court-appointed special masters like Selvus.
"The corrupt legislators who have put us in this mess want to turn to the IRC. We want to skip the bureaucratic hurdles and go straight to a special master," said the New York Young Republican. Club president Gavin Wax filed the first lawsuit to challenge the assembly line alongside political gadfly Gary Greenberg and former gubernatorial candidate Paul Nichols Wednesday.
Wax said oral arguments he was scheduled for August 19, adding that the date could change.
Speaker of Congress Carl Heastie, Governor Kathy Hochol, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousin and Task Force on Census and Redistribution who created the new map on behalf of Congress.
A Heastie spokesman did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment on a brief presented on behalf of the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the 150-member House of Representatives.
"We must get the process right. The only way to do it in the foreseeable future is to take it out of the hands of a selfish Congress. Until we can prove that it comes first,” Nichols added in another email.
