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It’s now been more than a month since New York’s highest court threw out the Democrats’ heavily gerrymandered congressional maps and ordered a “special master” to draw up new ones. Governor Kathy Hochul (whose Lt. Governor was recently forced to resign after being arrested on fraud and bribery charges) said she was “disappointed” with the ruling, but still hoped that the state’s June primaries could move forward as planned. She was also reportedly looking into ways that the Democrats could still force their maps through via some form of legal loophole. Neither of those plans seems possible at this point and the state has now been forced to move the primaries back until August 23rd. (NY Post)

New York’s congressional and state Senate primary elections will be pushed back nearly two months to Aug. 23, after the state’s highest court struck down the new district maps drawn by Democrats and approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul as unconstitutional.

State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister delayed the primaries from its original June 28 date, according to a decision released Friday.

He also ordered that the court-appointed special master, Jonathan Cervas, must create and publicly release new “impartial redistricting maps” for the US House of Representatives and state Senate by a May 20 deadline.

The court ordered the congressional and state senate primary elections back to the last week of August but left the gubernatorial and state assembly primaries in place for June 28. That means that if they aren’t also moved, the state will be on the hook for the cost of two elections, costing the taxpayers millions of dollars. It will also probably drive down turnout for one or both sets of races.

The Democrats were hoping to pick up multiple seats to offset the ones they anticipate losing in Maryland and Florida. But if this new set of maps is drawn in anything remotely resembling a nonpartisan fashion, they may not pick up any.