New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday filed an amicus brief in support of having new congressional district lines drawn after the current ones helped Republicans flip the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
The brief was filed in the Appellate Division, Third Department. In the filing, the state’s top Democrats maintain that, while maps redrawn by special master Jonathan Cervas last year — the result of a court challenge to the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission’s (IRC) lines — may have been appropriate for the 2022 election, they can and should be better.
