The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella group of over 200 immigration and refugee teams in New York State, on Tuesday welcomed the New York Court docket of Appeals’ greenlight to redraw the Congressional maps.
“We applaud the court docket’s determination to permit the New York Impartial Redistricting Fee to redraw the state’s congressional maps, fostering a extra truthful and equitable redistricting course of that can precisely mirror the variety of our communities,” Murad Awawdeh, NYIC’s government director, instructed Caribbean Life.
“This end result will present immigrant New Yorkers with the chance to have their voices and considerations heard, making a system the place their enter is a elementary a part of the decision-making course of,” he added. “By guaranteeing a extra inclusive redistricting course of, New Yorkers could have a possibility to elect candidates who really align with the state’s core values – and actively uplift immigrant communities.”
On Tuesday the New York Court docket of Appeals dominated in favor of redrawing the state’s Congressional district maps for the 2024 election.
Earlier this Fall, the Court docket of Appeals put a keep on a decrease court docket ruling that New York’s Congressional districts are unconstitutional, and ought to be redrawn by the New York Impartial Redistricting Fee.
Awawdeh stated the present congressional maps “performed a key position in Republicans flipping essential Home seats, and taking management of Congress, in final 12 months’s normal election.”
The state’s redistricting fee has till Feb. 28 to submit a brand new congressional map.
Each New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul additionally welcomed the court docket’s determination, saying that the redistricting determination “will guarantee all New Yorkers are pretty and equitably represented by elected officers.”
In April, James and Hochul submitted an amicus temporary in assist of efforts to redraw New York’s Congressional district strains relatively than leaving the strains drawn by a court-appointed particular grasp in place between now and the 2030 census.
Of their temporary, the legal professional normal and the governor famous that “the state structure is obvious that the state legislature should have the chance to treatment electoral maps discovered to be invalid by a court docket.”
Additionally they famous that, for the reason that drawback that led the Court docket of Appeals to approve the involvement of a particular grasp — the brief time to impose new electoral maps, with solely months to go earlier than the 2022 main elections — now not exists, the electoral maps drawn by the particular grasp shouldn’t be used for the rest of the last decade.”
James and Hochul stated the Court docket of Appeals’ determination “signifies that new Congressional maps will probably be drawn and submitted to the legislature for evaluate.”
