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Lawsuit Calls for New Political Map of Districts Challenges New York Assembly Map – NBC New York (47)

A new lawsuit seeks to rule out new political maps that draw the boundaries of New York State Assembly districts, a challenge that comes amid a broader legal battle over state redistricting.

The lawsuit filed Sunday by a bipartisan group of political activists contends that maps drawn by the legislature are unconstitutional, a similar claim used in lawsuits to successfully overturn Democrat-favored maps for state Senate and House districts. of the US as unconstitutional.

The lawsuit brought by Democratic activist Gary Greenberg and conservative political commentator Gavin Wax asks a judge to throw out the maps and move all of New York’s primary elections to the same day.

New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled last month that the Democratic-controlled Legislature had failed to follow a voter-approved constitutional process in 2014 when drawing new political districts for the 2022 election.

But the Court of Appeals did not order new Assembly maps because a group of Republican voters who sued over the redistricting process did not specifically challenge them in their lawsuit. They only looked up the maps for the seats in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

A redistricting expert, hired by a New York court, is now working to redraw Congressional and Senate districts under court oversight. The first expert draft of those maps will be published on Monday.

New York plans to hold primaries for the Assembly and for governor on June 28. The primaries for the state Senate and Congress have been pushed back to August 23 to allow time for the mapping process.

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