Top NY court hears oral arguments in suit challenging congressional redistricting newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
During oral arguments Wednesday, the six remaining judges on the court of appeals seemed to fall into step with their opinions in last year’s decision that tossed out New York’s congressional maps.
Leave the maps alone: The N.Y. Court of Appeals should be hands off on redistricting nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Attorneys for Republicans and Democrats spent almost two hours arguing their cases Wednesday afternoon before the Court of Appeals in a packed downtown courtroom.
The judicial panel has one member from the region – Associate Judge Shirley Troutman, a prosecutor and judge in Western New York for more than 30 years.