Democrats in the state legislature voted on Monday to toss out congressional redistricting lines drawn by a bipartisan commission, choosing to draw and propose their own maps – which have little impact on district boundaries in Queens.
Read MoreThe New York State Independent Redistricting Commission voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a new state congressional district map that looks a lot like the one drawn by a court-appointed special master in 2022 following a litigious redistricting process that may not yet be out of the woods.
Read MoreQueens Public Library CEO, borough native and former Department of Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott was appointed to the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission by the state senate majority leader on Friday.
Read MoreA group of redistricting advocates are calling on the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to collect public testimony ahead of the drawing of a new set of congressional maps, after the Court of Appeals ordered the commission to issue new district lines by the end of February.
Read MoreNew York’s top court on Tuesday ordered the state to redraw its congressional districts, ruling that the state’s current congressional district lines, which were drawn by a court-appointed special master and used in the 2022 elections, deprived New Yorkers of their constitutional rights.
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals on Wednesday heard arguments about whether or not New York’s congressional districts will be redrawn for the third time in the past two years, restarting a redistricting process that has been marred by partisan squabbles, multiple lawsuits and general confusion about where the state’s congressional lines stand.
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals judge who was previously considered the potential tiebreaker in the major redistricting case coming before the court next month has recused herself from the case.
Read MoreAfter a lower appellate court ordered state congressional district lines to be redrawn, the state’s highest court has ordered a stay until they make their own ruling.
Read MoreIn an expected move, the GOP and the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission have appealed an appellate court’s recent decision ordering New York’s congressional district lines to be redrawn. The case will now be heard by the state’s highest court, the second time the court has heard a case on the state’s redistricting lines.
Read MoreAn appeals court ordered the state’s failed redistricting commission to redraw the state’s congressional maps on Thursday, ruling that the maps used for the 2022 election not be used again in the future.
Read MoreThe APA Voice Redistricting Task Force filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the New York Independent Redistricting Commission in order to figure out why a draft version of their district that received widespread community support was scrapped at the final moments of a tumultuous redistricting process.
Read MoreA State Supreme Court judge rejected late last week a lawsuit from Queens residents alleging that the New York City Districting Commission unfairly drew council redistricting lines that split Queens’ South Asian communities.
Read MoreAs lawmakers approved State Assembly district lines on Monday, a group of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean advocates rallied in South Queens to protest the newly approved lines, which they say maintain unfair districts that splits up and dilutes their growing political voice.
Read MoreThe New York Independent Redistricting Commission voted 9-1 to send a new set of Assembly district maps over the legislature, maps nearly identical to current lines.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James filed a brief calling for the congressional redistricting maps to be redrawn, potentially beginning another episode in a drawn out redistricting saga that saw multiple versions of maps and ongoing court battles.
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