Republicans are poised to add as many as three seats in Congress depending on how New York’s rejected congressional district maps are revised under a court order by an appointed nonpartisan Special Master.
The New York Court of Appeals—the state’s highest court—on April 27 upheld lower court rulings that new congressional maps drawn by the Democrat-controlled legislature are “unconstitutionally gerrymandered.”
The seven-member panel, all appointed by Democratic governors, also said in its 4-3 ruling that the state’s Democratic lawmakers violated a 2014 constitutional amendment approved by voters that left post-Census reapportionment up to an independent redistricting commission.
The court kicked the case back to Steuben County Judge Patrick F. McAllister, a Republican whose rejection of the maps was being appealed by the legislature.
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