When the New York Court of Appeals convenes later this month to review the July 13 decision in Matter of Hoffmann v. New York State Redistricting Commission, 217 A.D. 3d 53, 192 N.Y.S. 3d 763, by the Appellate Division, Third Department, the high court, under the leadership of its new Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, is tasked with a responsibility to insure that every vote counts, and that Albany based legislative leaders’ attempts to gerrymander the state’s Congressional Districts are not implemented.
A key component of the jurisprudential assignment requires the overlay of the state constitution, and what it states concerning decennial redistricting.
