‘Flawed from outset’: Judge blasts NY Democrats for ‘Hochul-mander’ mess

[Kamaji]

‘Flawed from outset’: Judge blasts NY Democrats for ‘Hochul-mander’ mess

By Carl Campanile and Bernadette Hogan
April 7, 2022

A state appellate judge ripped New York’s legislature Thursday for creating a redistricting panel that lawmakers knew was “flawed from the outset” — resulting in a messy, partisan “stalemate” over disputed congressional district maps that have ended up in court.

The 10-member “independent redistricting commission” formed in 2014 to redraw congressional and state Senate and Assembly maps following the decennial census was not independent at all, Appellate Judge Stephen Lindley said during a virtual hearing Thursday.

The appointments to the panel were equally split between Democrats and Republicans, resulting in bipartisan gridlock.

The redistricting process “was flawed from the outset” and “everyone knew it,” Lindley said.

“It’s no surprise. It wasn’t independent.”

Because of the impasse with the redistricting panel, the Democrat-run Legislature redrew the congressional maps that an upstate Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister last week shot down as unconstitutional, concluding the new districts were “gerrymandered” to diminish Republican representation.

The number of GOP House members could be cut in half, from 8 to 4.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/judge-blasts-ny-democrats-for-hochul-mander-mess/

[Fishrrman]

"The number of GOP House members could be cut in half, from 8 to 4."

Remember how, not long ago, we were being told that population shifts and redistricting would "favor" the Republicans...?

The dem-communists will probably get their way in New York. The legislature is dem-com, the courts are dem-com, and the Republican party is essentially toothless.