What unmitigated gall: New York’s highest courtroom slaps down Gov. Kathy Hochul and fellow Democrats for attempting to ram by unconstitutionally gerrymandered voting districts — and the way do they reply? By resorting to sneaky new methods to power these districts on voters anyway.
The maps disenfranchised voters of each events — Republicans, by squeezing them into a couple of districts in order that the GOP would lose half its House seats; Democrats, by creating “protected” Dem seats that will be dominated by the get together bosses’ selections.
But the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee went to federal courtroom to power New York to make use of the contaminated maps anyway. This, after all of the Democrats’ noise in Congress these final 15 months about defending voters’ rights.
After all, this follows the state courts’ repeated slapdowns of New York Dems.
Final month, New York’s Court docket of Appeals (each single member of which was hand-chosen by a Democratic governor) found the Dems’ congressional district boundaries violated the state Structure’s ban on maps “drawn to discourage competitors or for the aim of favoring or disfavoring incumbents or different explicit candidates or political events.” That language comes from a 2014 constitutional modification handed by New York voters, who basically reaffirmed it in a referendum final 12 months.

The Dem maps would’ve seemingly sliced the variety of New York congressional seats held by Republicans from eight to only 4, whereas Dems received 22. As a substitute, the judges ordered a court-appointed particular grasp to attract honest district boundaries and that the June 28 main be moved to Aug. 23, to make sure sufficient time for campaigning.
New York Dems’ response? They asked the court to undertake a “new” congressional map that appears very similar to the one the courtroom had simply tossed: Closely Democratic Park Slope would nonetheless be jammed into the Republican-leaning Staten Island district in a backdoor bid to flip it blue. Dems would even be higher suited to steal GOP districts upstate and on Lengthy Island.
The DCCC, in its bid to save lots of the gerrymander, tried to assert that forcing new districts would additionally disenfranchise voters — so there! We gained’t attempt to clarify the “logic” there, besides that it relied on the “impossibility” of drawing new maps in time, a declare rejected by each state and federal authority concerned. The state Board of Elections has said explicitly the first may be moved to Aug. 23 and nonetheless meet all federal necessities.
Dems merely need energy, whilst they blather about voters’ rights. It’s all blatant proof of their top-to-bottom hypocrisy.