Judge Pressures Legislators On Congressional Districts
By Michael Gormley
Associated Press
ALBANY — A state judge is pressuring New York’s legislature to agree on a redistricting proposal for Congress or face imposition of her own proposal, which would eliminate a Democrat’s seat in the Hudson Valley and Republican’s seat in Queens and Brooklyn.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday that the proposal provides a template and impetus for a deal between the Assembly’s Democratic majority and Senate’s Republican majority that would avoid a court-ordered plan.