Gov. Kathy Hochul and fellow Democrats failed spectacularly final yr of their bid to snub voters and rig congressional- districts maps. So, in fact, they’re attempting once more this yr.
On Thursday, an appellate panel will hear their argument for a particular new spherical of redistricting, claiming the maps produced final yr solely utilized solely to 2022.
It’s nonsense on stilts, in fact, which is why the Albany County Supreme Court docket shot it down.
However this time, devious Dems have a plot that would show profitable — voters be damned.
Final yr, Democrats tried to ram by way of gerrymandered maps that have been speculated to end in simply 4 Republican Home seats from New York (of 26).
That defied language voters inserted within the state Structure in 2014 that expressly forbid gerrymandering.
The courts then threw out their maps (natch) and appointed a particular grasp to attract up truthful ones, which led Republicans to win 11 seats as a substitute of 4 — and helped return the Home to the GOP.
Now Dems need one other probability to gerrymander, in defiance of voters as soon as once more.
And as soon as once more, their declare — that final yr’s maps have to be redrawn — flies within the face of constitutional language, this time banning mid-decade redistricting.
Such a transfer would additionally confuse voters, lots of whom might discover themselves in one other new district, after shifting final yr.
In fact, Dems don’t care about that; they’re decided to rig the maps and lock in Democratic management all over the place.
And this time they’ve bought an ace within the gap: a Court docket of Appeals (the state’s highest courtroom) led by a chief judge, Rowan Wilson, chosen expressly for his progressive bona fides.
Far-left lawmakers rejected Hochul’s first choose for the place, Hector LaSalle, because they couldn’t count on him to flout the regulation and do their bidding. (It’s true: They nearly admitted as a lot.)
If Dems now lose on the appellate stage — they usually plainly ought to — they determine they’ll simply get the Court docket of Appeals to greenlight a brand new spherical of gerrymandering that would shut out Republicans once more.
That’s, they rigged the excessive courtroom to allow them to rig the maps.
The Dems’ one-party rule has saddled New York with excessive crime charges, hovering taxes, ailing colleges and a bunch of different woes.
In the event that they get away with their new bid to gerrymander and lock in Democratic congressional seats, it’ll not solely snub voters but additionally assist transport their disastrous insurance policies to Washington.
