A rural judge and a Carnegie Mellon researcher are drawing New York's new congressional maps

The task of redrawing New York's congressional district maps has fallen to a rural judge and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. That's after New York’s highest court threw out congressional maps drawn by the state Legislature, and the state Court of Appeals ruled those maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered Wednesday. That ruling dealt a big blow to Democrats’ hopes of crafting a heavily favorable electoral map.

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