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| DATE | 2023-12-15 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] fcked up NY
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https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/opinion/gerrymander-gets-the-go-ahead-after-democrats-corrupted-nys-top-court/
nypost.com
Gerrymander gets the go-ahead after Democrats corrupted NY's top court
Post Editorial Board
~3 minutes
“This time,” Justice Anthony Cannataro thundered Tuesday, “politics
triumphs over free and fair elections.”
Over the rule of law, too: New York’s top court gave Democrats the
go-ahead to gerrymander the state’s House seats after they’d stacked
the Court of Appeals for just this reason.
Last year, Dem lawmakers pushed through patently gerrymandered maps, in
clear violation of the state Constitution and voters’ twice-expressed
mandates.
After the Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that nixed those maps,
Dems simply packed the court to get the “justice” they wanted.
First, they elevated Rowan Wilson from COA judge to the court’s chief
judge via an unprecedented, and corrupt, legislative process.
Next they filed an utterly baseless suit to toss the nonpartisan maps
fairly drawn in 2022 by a neutral special master.
Then, Gov. Hochul’s pick to fill the Wilson vacancy, Caitlin Halligan,
oh-so-conveniently recused herself in that case — and Wilson tapped
Dianne Renwick, a judge who’d already ruled in Dems’ favor in a similar
case, to fill in.
On Tuesday, Renwick and Wilson, joined by two other hard progressives,
Jenny Rivera and Shirley Troutman, came through — voting to give
Democrats another shot at gerrymandering to win back seats they’d lost
in fair elections.
Next: The state’s Independent Redistricting Commission will either
deadlock (it has equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans) or come up
with a third set of maps that the Dem-dominated Legislature will
reject.
Either way, the Democratic supermajorities will be free to gerrymander
again, maybe a tad less obviously this time ’round. (But don’t count on
it)
This should enable Democrats to steal back two to six New York House
seats next November, when Republicans now control that chamber by just
three.
This, when New York’s voters have demanded fair districting twice — in
2014, approving a state-constitutional amendment to ban gerrymandering,
and in a 2021 referendum rejecting efforts to roll back the 2014
reform.
Again: Democratic lawmakers ignored the law and the voters’ express
will with last year’s naked gerrymander — until the courts slapped them
down.
And then their response was simply a series of back-room maneuvers to
corrupt the courts with never a hint of shame.
And yet Democrats are shocked when polls show the voters don’t buy
their claims that Republicans now pose a unique threat to democracy.
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