Bipartisan Petitioners Challenge Assembly 'Gerrymandering' in Manhattan Trial Court
The effort was deemed "too important not to keep fighting," by one election lawyer, a Democrat representing a GOP challenger to the maps.
May 20, 2022 at 05:43 PM
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Voting stations at P.S. 11 Purvis J. Behan Elementary in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on Nov. 2, 2021. Photo: Ryland West/ALM A bipartisan bid to have New York's Assembly map invalidated, just five weeks before the planned primary for that political body's primary races, heads in front of a Manhattan trial court judge Monday.
After being rebuffed earlier this month in a southwestern New York trial court, the effort was deemed "too important not to keep fighting," says Aaron Foldenauer, a Democrat and full-time elections lawyer who's representing Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, in the new lawsuit.
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