N.Y.C. Open Primaries Challenge Moves Ahead in State Court; US Loses Challenge Seeking NY Voter Lists; New Law Gives New York State Legislature the Ability to Write Ballot Language for Referenda on ...

The Assembly and Senate approved legislation moving forward a constitutional amendment to reform New York’s redistricting process last week (S.10637/A.11553). If approved again by the new legislature ...

What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting- And Beyond? Late Monday night on June 1st, Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins introduced a constitutional ...

What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting? The state legislature is expected to approve one or more constitutional amendments to permit the legislature to draw a new congressional map before ...

$30 Million to Protect $186 Billion: The Case for Investing in Census Accuracy in New York State As state budget negotiations continue on Albany where up to $30 million is being discussed to support ...

With congressional primary campaign petitioning set to get underway, New York’s congressional map remains uncertain. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis’ request for the U.S. Supreme Court to “stay” the ...

New York State Constitution Article XIII, section one requires public officers, such as the Mayor, “before they enter on the duties of their respective offices” to take the oath of office as set forth ...

Democratic U.S. House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic Members of the New York Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader ...

Following the national attention on the politically-driven re-redistricting taking place in Texas and the legally required remapping in Ohio, New York is often mentioned as one state where the ...

On July 9, 2025, NYC Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, former Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, and local community members came together to celebrate ...

Can New York Redraw Its Congressional Districts? As the Texas Legislature begins to meet this week to take up a partisan effort to redraw the state’s congressional map, California Governor Gavin ...

United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), joined by 17 Republican colleagues, reintroduced the Equal Representation Act legislation to ensure that only legal citizens are factored into the count for ...