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NY Appellate Court deems Assembly districts invalid but no change to June primary; new maps planned for 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. — A Manhattan appellate court ruled Friday that Democrat-drawn state Assembly maps are unconstitutional and should be redrawn — just not this year.

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GOP-led Legislature to step in as defendant in high-profile Michigan abortion lawsuit

LANSING, Mich. — The Republican-led state Legislature plans to step in as the defendant in a case challenging the constitutionality of Michigan's abortion ban after Attorney General Dana Nessel said neither she nor anyone in her office would defend the state law.

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Craig, off ballot, says campaign's not over: 'I'm not going to let this go'

Former Detroit police Chief James Craig vowed that his fight to advance in Michigan's Republican primary for governor would continue, two days after the Michigan Supreme Court declined to place him on the August primary ballot.

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Republicans take fight to get on primary ballot to Michigan Supreme Court

DETROIT — Two Republican candidates for governor who have been knocked off the ballot because of a gush of alleged petition forgeries have asked the Michigan Supreme Court to immediately hear their cases and intervene to put their names on the August primary ballot.

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GOP candidate for Michigan governor denied spot on ballot in court ruling

DETROIT — The Michigan Court of Appeals rejected Wednesday a lawsuit from Republican businessman Perry Johnson, who asked the judges to revive his campaign for governor by giving him a spot on the August primary ballot.

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Supreme Court Reinstates Stay of Texas Social Media Law (Pending Appeal); Justices Alito Dissents

Justices Thomas and Gorsuch join Justice Alito's dissent, and Justice Kagan disagreed with the majority without opinion. This is not a decision on the merits of the law, but Justice Alito's dissent notes why the answer to the merits question is "quite unclear."

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NY voters, lawyers make final arguments as ‘special master’ set to redraw state election maps

ALBANY, N.Y. — The independent expert in charge of drawing up New York’s congressional and state Senate district maps has his work cut out for him.

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NC Supreme Court won't hear case of Rev. Barber's conviction

North Carolina’s highest court has refused to hear the appeal of a civil rights leader convicted of trespassing during a 2017 demonstration inside the Legislative Building

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Judge slams Democratic-backed lawsuit to keep scrapped NY congressional maps as ‘Hail Mary’

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge on Wednesday denied a Democratic-backed injunction attempting to force the state of New York to move ahead with a June congressional primary using district maps scrapped last week by the state’s highest court.

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Judge to review additional legal challenge against New York’s Democratic-drawn Assembly maps

ALBANY, N.Y. — The upstate judge overseeing the redrawing of New York’s scrapped state Senate and congressional maps will weigh a legal challenge seeking to have Democrat-drafted Assembly district maps voided as well.

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Editorial: Democracy wins: New York’s highest court invalidates an obnoxious hyperpartisan gerrymander

In a rousing win for New York’s voters, the state’s highest court invalidated the twisted district maps drawn by the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority to help their party for the next decade. Answering the calls of this page and the League of Women Voters, the Court of Appeals (where all seven…

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NY Court of Appeals strikes down congressional maps, primary elections to be pushed back

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court struck down Democratic-drawn congressional and state senate districts Wednesday, a decision that will likely see the state’s primary pushed back until August.

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New York Court of Appeals weighs fate of Democrat-drawn congressional maps

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court is set to decide whether the Democrat-led Legislature engaged in gerrymandering when drawing up new congressional districts.

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Editorial: After a New York appellate panel makes the right decision on gerrymandered districts, all eyes are on the state’s highest court

The highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, on Tuesday morning will hear oral arguments on whether or not to strike down the obviously gerrymandered districts drawn by the Democrats in the Legislature. Two lower courts have already found they violate the state Constitution.

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The Independent UK

Court rules NY Democrats gerrymandered district boundaries

A panel of five mid-level New York appellate judges have ruled that state Democrats engaged in gerrymandering when drawing new congressional district boundaries for the next decade

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Maryland’s highest court rejects legislative map challenge, clearing way for July 19 primary

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a challenge to a General Assembly-approved map of state legislative districts that multiple lawsuits from Republican politicians and voters contended violated provisions of the state’s constitution.

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Top New York judge not complying with vaccine mandate

A judge on New York’s highest court has been referred to a disciplinary commission and could be kicked off the bench for failing to comply with a rule requiring all court personnel to provide proof they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19

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Flint water criminal trials may face 2-year delay after appeals court ruling

DETROIT — The Michigan Attorney General's office must create a "taint team" to independently review documents seized from state offices during the Flint water investigation that could delay its prosecutions for an estimated two years following a recent court decision.

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Reason

SCOTUS GDRs Trump v. Thompson: Grant, Dictumize, and Retreat

The Supreme Court summarily deems the "central question" of the D.C. Circuit's opinion as "nonbinding dicta" to avoid hamstringing some future, more worthwhile, president.

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