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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Judge rejects New York's redistricting plan, orders new maps

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled Legislature to redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional.

Judge Patrick McAllister said in a Thursday ruling that maps redrawing the state's congressional districts were gerrymandered to benefit Democrats. McAllister said those districts must be redrawn, along with the legislative districts, in a way that attracted at least some bipartisan support.

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