[EL] Breaking: New York Appellate Court Holds NY’s Congressional Redistricting is a Partisan Gerrymander Violating the State Constitution, Gives Legislature Until April 30 to Draw a New Map

[Rick Hasen]

Update: I stand corrected! The Assembly’s defense counsel did raise a version of the independent state legislature theory in its brief<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/234-3_21-Assembly-Memo-Opposition.pdf__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_Fpw_g_0w$ >:
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From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 2:56 PM
To: Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: Breaking: New York Appellate Court Holds NY’s Congressional Redistricting is a Partisan Gerrymander Violating the State Constitution, Gives Legislature Until April 30 to Draw a New Map

Breaking: New York Appellate Court Holds NY’s Congressional Redistricting is a Partisan Gerrymander Violating the State Constitution, Gives Legislature Until April 30 to Draw a New Map<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128895__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_FDJTL7pQ$ >
April 21, 2022, 2:53 pm<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128895__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_FDJTL7pQ$ > redistricting<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_HX2H5gcw$ > RICK HASEN<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_EGWdYHxg$ >


You can find the ruling at this link.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/ny-gerrymander.pdf__;!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!O5r4fXd4w917lQe033C7X-Wc57ZN_q7hkKqhplO07yULp6vG4uZiUG8PY-ObGbrz65gT1AEbAUcEi_G_whmNgQ$ >

The ruling can still be appealed to NY’s highest appellate court.

Anyone expect Democrats to raise the independent state legislature doctrine, arguing that the NY legislature can draw whatever maps it wants for congressional districts unencumbered by the state constitution? I didn’t think so.




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