Voters and advocates from across New York joined lawyers for Republicans and Democrats on Friday in an upstate courtroom, providing special master Jonathan Cervas with plenty to consider as he recrafts the state’s recently scrapped district maps.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan called the legal move led by lawyers for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee a “longshot” before denying their temporary restraining order.
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An upstate businessman is preparing to file a lawsuit Monday calling on the courts to invalidate Assembly maps after the Court of Appeals noted in a ruling earlier this week that they are just as unconstitutional as the other unjustly drawn districts.