Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais decision, leading New York State Democrats were voicing their intense opposition to the case’s outcome. On X, New York’s top Democrat, Governor Kathy Hochul, vowed to “fight back.” Leading Democrats from New York’s Assembly and Senate majorities joined the governor in her opposition to the decision that strongly curtailed the ability to use race in drawing legislative districts at all levels of government. More recently, New York representative and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tasked close ally and Rochester-area Democratic Representative Joe Morelle to coordinate with state leaders on a plan for another round of redistricting before the 2028 elections.
And just like that, the first shots of New York’s 2028 redistricting wars had been fired. It may be a challenging fight: New York is undoubtedly one of the country’s bluest states, and Democrats dominate state government, but ramming through a new, gerrymandered Democratic map might not be as easy as many assume.
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