The top court in New York ordered on Tuesday the creation of a new congressional map, a move that bodes ill for Republicans who made gains in the blue state after the last redistricting cycle.
By a 4-3 vote, the New York Court of Appeals ruled the Independent Redistricting Commission is allowed to redraw the lines ahead of the 2024 election. Whatever map comes out of the process, which has a deadline at the end of February, it will then need to be approved by the state legislature that is controlled by Democrats.
“In 2014, the voters of New York amended our Constitution to provide that legislative districts be drawn by an Independent Redistricting Commission,” Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote in an opinion. “The Constitution demands that process, not districts drawn by courts.”
The ruling stems from a legal challenge backed by Democrats and opposed by Republicans that followed a…
