Court-Ordered New York Map Re-do Could Mean Three More GOP Congressional Reps

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was unsure if the state would appeal a ruling that rejected the Democrat-controlled legislature's new congressional district maps. Photo taken on Aug. 24, 2021. Mike Groll/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul

Republicans are poised to add as many as three seats in Congress depending on how New York’s rejected congressional district maps are revised under a court order by an appointed nonpartisan Special Master.

The New York Court of Appeals—the state’s highest court—on April 27 upheld lower court rulings that new congressional maps drawn by the Democrat-controlled legislature are “unconstitutionally gerrymandered.”