A federal judge threw out New York’s heavily gerrymandered maps, ruling that they violated the state’s constitutional mandate that districts be drawn in a fair manner. The new districts heavily favored the Democrats.
I have no problem with that. The more federal judges find that partisan line drawing is unconstitutional, the better, even if they are applying state constitutional rules.
When I spoke to Rep. Heffley, my state representative, on this issue, his answer was, “Both parties do it.” That is the type of answer a 5th grader would use. “He started it.” Let’s get rid of gerrymanders everywhere.
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