Democrats lose ‘Hail Mary’ bid to reinstate gerrymander of House linesBy Ben Feuerherd and Zach Williams
May 4, 2022
A federal judge in Manhattan Wednesday denied a “Hail Mary” effort by Democrats to reinstate gerrymandered congressional lines for the upcoming midterm elections after a ruling by New York’s highest court last week that declared them an illegal gerrymander under the state constitution.
“I would be hard pressed to imagine a scenario that would cast into greater disrepute the rationality, the fairness, the consistency of the holding of elections in this great country than to precipitate that,” Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York said.
He called the effort by Democrats a “Hail Mary.”
Democrats had requested a temporary restraining order from Kaplan as the state gets ready ready to finalize the ballot for the June 28 primary for Assembly and statewide offices.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/democrats-lose-hail-mary-bid-to-reinstate-house-gerrymander/
