NY Young Republican Club leader files motion to stop Assembly redistrictingBy Carl Campanile
May 2, 2022
The head of the New York Young Republican Club filed an emergency motion Sunday night urging the trial court judge to toss out the state Assembly district maps as unconstitutional along with the gerrymandered congressional and state Senate maps that were approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats.
State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister in upstate Steuben County initially tossed all three sets of legislative maps in his initial March 31 ruling. But the Republican plaintiffs in the case did not question the legality of the Assembly maps during appeals.
Because of the procedural omission, the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, did not throw out the Assembly maps in its ruling last week that declared the congressional and Senate maps as unconstitutional for partisan gerrymandering and failing to follow the law involving map-making with the Independent Redistricting Commission.
But the decision left the door open for a challenge to the Assembly’s redistricting in a footnote accompanying its decision.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/ny-young-republican-club-leader-files-motion-to-stop-assembly-redistricting/
