New York Lawmakers Toss Independent-Drawn, Court-Ordered Congressional Map by John Haughey – US Politics News

The Democrat-dominated New York Legislature has rejected in super-majority votes an independent commission’s court-ordered congressional district map. It now has only days to adopt a new one without throwing the state’s 2024 election schedule into disarray.
How blue lawmakers will go with their new map will be the grist of contention among Democrats in the coming days as well as a source of swirling speculation in Washington with potentially significant ramifications on which party controls the U.S. House in 2025.
It would only take minor changes to the plan proposed by the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) on Feb. 15 to diminish reelection odds for six GOP New York freshman congressional reps who won 2022 elections in districts President Joe Biden took in 2020, flipping four and keying Republicans’ narrow midterms’ recapture of the chamber and their 2024 hopes to retain it….