Democrats' House majority was already slipping away, but Wednesday's court decision in New York was potentially devastating
Still, it’s severely weakened morale for Democrats, who have suddenly lost their biggest win of the redistricting battle while facing even stronger headwinds going into November., who leads the House campaign arm and has worked closely with other national Democrats on the party’s redistricting strategy.
“It didn’t need to be that way,” she said. “We could have made lines that were fair and followed the rules and still have been effective at making sure that Democrats are represented.” Two seemed to gain the most traction: The state attorney general could offer a legal opinion stipulating that New York’s primary must be held as scheduled in June, ensuring the current maps would stand. Alternatively, the state legislature could ask the state’s appeals court for a motion to reconsider its decision, perhaps in the hopes that it would at least restore the map-drawing power back to the legislature.