Democrats have been dealt a blow in the Empire State as the state’s highest court – the New York Court of Appeals – concluded that the Democrats had unconstitutionally gerrymandered their latest proposed congressional map, which was signed by Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul.
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote:
Based on the foregoing, the enactment of the congressional and senate maps by the legislature was procedurally unconstitutional, and the congressional map is also substantively unconstitutional as drawn with impermissible partisan purpose, leaving the state without constitutional district lines for use in the 2022 primary and general elections.
New York’s redistricting commission, which has an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, were unable to agree on a new congressional map. This is the first redistricting that has happened since 2014, when New York voters amended the state constitution to include a bipartisan redistricting commission.
Gov. Hochul approved maps that were proposed by the Democrat-controlled legislature and even some on her own side, have called her out for approving an unconstitutional redistricting map.
New York Republican Party chair praised the move by the New York Court of Appeals and took to Twitter to celebrate what he called the defeat of the “Hochulmander.”
“The Hochulmander has officially been defeated … even the partisan-appointed Democrat judges couldn’t swallow how filthy this gerrymander was,” Langworthy said.
A Democrat, hoping to replace Hochul for Governor, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), called Hochul’s leadership a “dysfunctional government.”
“Another failure for New York’s dysfunctional government and Kathy Hochul. She’s not the leader that New Yorkers need or deserve,” Suozzi tweeted.
New York Democrat Party chair Jay Jacobs, downplayed the court ruling, however, and said he remains “confident in Democratic victories up and down the ballot this November.”
“While certain district lines may change, what does not change is our Party’s record of results which contrasts clearly with the Republican Party’s radical agenda to drag this state backward,” Jacobs said.
New York’s highest court said it would “likely be necessary” for the state primaries to be moved to a later date, which was originally scheduled for June 28 and will likely be held in August as candidates did not have enough time to prepare their campaigns, ahead of the general elections in November.
The court said:
We are confident that, in consultation with the Board of Elections, Supreme Court can swiftly develop a schedule to facilitate an August primary election, allowing time for the adoption of new constitutional maps, the dissemination of correct information to voters, the completion of the petitioning process, and compliance with federal voting laws, including the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (see 52 USC § 20302).
Currently, Republicans are only five seats away from regaining a majority, which is why the Democrats are trying to gerrymander their way into the advantage.
Not at all surprised they got away with it once so of course they will do anything to get away with election fraud again!
Exactly
Ie – Yesterday’s news that Biden had conceived of a new position in his administration which controls FREE SPEECH under the auspicious of the DHS.
Imagine that = a DISINFORMATION CZAR.
This smacks of Orwell’s 1984 come to fruition.
During the Cold War in Europe, they had a group given such powers and they could make a citizen disappear without question. Russia had a phrase that would make people crap their pants. A simple – Your papers are not in order .
Abraham Lincoln said that if we don’t stand for liberty we become the authors of our own suicide. We need to boldly stand against those who are trying to destroy liberty in America, and in the world for their own personal greed.
You are so right Diana. That is the only way a Democrat can get into the White House. Look at Obama, he was an illegal president. He was not born an American, he was born in Kenya just like his grandmother said and he definitely wasn’t born in Hawaii. They had two different hospitals in Hawaii that says he was born in their hospital. And the date on his fake birth certificate is way after the year he was born.
Nothing the Democrats do will surprise me anymore in fact I expect it !!. I was brought up to believe the Dems were for the working class and the poor people of this country . The sad thing is there are still a lot of people out there that believe in that old teaching, todays Dems only care about the power could care less about the working class they want total control even if it means Socialism as long as they stay at the top of the food chain, their tactics will not stop until held accountable, which I don’t see happing there is to much money on their side ! We all know that big money controls a lot of what’s been happing in our country, It has gone beyond criminal to evil and I’m afraid we could end up in WORLD WAR THREE because of it. The people in this country better wake up before its to late we need to vote for politicians that will defend the constitution, protect the country and its people !.WE can not pick the people that lead our country like its a MISS. USA contest as to who looks the best or has the best Hollywood ties. Even the best polished speaker is not always the best person for the job. Think before you vote your families life my depend on it.
The ones in office only care about themselves abd power!
The Demoratic Party has lied, stolen, and in general slit the throat of our society with their woke b.s.
There should be no early voting. Voting should only be on Election Day except for military and citizens out of the country at the time. If you can shop or go out to do other things on Election Day then you.can vote. This will keep fraud and illegal voting at a.minimum.
We have gone beyond the ballot box solving the problems in our federal government . It’s time to institute the cartridge box and clean the communist garbage out of America permanatly . LETS GO BRANDON #FJB
Agree!!!!
As Lincoln said. If we don’t Stand up to an oppressive gov. They will steal our liberties one bit at a time. VOTE Conservative in Nov..