The fight over one of the most consequential congressional battlegrounds in the United States will take center stage on Wednesday — not in the hotly contested suburbs or a campaign convention hall, but in a staid courtroom in Buffalo.
That is where Democrats will try to convince the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, to give their party a chance to redraw the state’s congressional map before the 2024 election.
The case will ostensibly turn on conflicting readings of the State Constitution. But the court’s decision in the coming weeks will have much farther-reaching political implications.
New York now has one of the most competitive congressional maps in the country, thanks to the court’s intervention last year. If Democrats prevail in the current case, they will most likely try to reassert their dominance with more favorable lines that could help them flip as many as six Republican seats from Long Island to Syracuse.
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