New York Democrats have launched their latest push – Latest News
New York Democrats’ latest bid to suppress Republican voters launches this week because the Legislature will get the ball rolling on amending the state Constitution to permit it.
They declare they’re simply countering GOP gerrymandering throughout the nation, however that prompts the query: Why did they begin making an attempt to do that earlier than the ink was even dry on the 2020 Census?
As we famous not too long ago, New York Dems in reality triggered the gerrymander wars with their relentless efforts, beginning in 2021, to undo the voter-passed prohibition on gerrymandering so they might draw district maps assured to close out the Republicans (who nonetheless draw over 40% of the statewide vote).
That yr they supplied (and misplaced) three poll propositions to permit it; virtually yearly since, they’ve pulled one or one other soiled trick to do it anyway — with some success, although they needed to totally politicize the state’s high court docket to get away with it.
The latest stunt facilities on passing proposed amendments this yr and subsequent, and so permit a statewide vote later in 2027, to empower ruthless redistricting for the 2028 federal election.
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Their adjustments to the Constitution would:
Delete the prohibition on partisan gerrymandering.
Create a new energy for the Legislature redistrict at will, fairly than solely after the Census.
Kill the requirement for two-thirds of each the Assembly and state Senate to approve an override of the impartial redistricting commission.
Democrats determine the national information and anti-Trump fever will transfer the public to OK this bare energy grab, and maybe it’s going to.
Then again, if the voters reject these adjustments, the Legislature will gerrymander anyway: Again, that’s precisely how our lawbreaking lawmakers responded to the public’s 2021 rejection of their schemes.
They’ll declare (as they all the time do) that it’s about “fairness” and “protecting democracy,” however in reality it’s all about abusing their energy to lock in more energy — democracy be damned.
