{"id":47702,"date":"2022-04-27T17:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47702"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:07:28","slug":"new-york-high-court-tosses-democrat-drawn-redistricting-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47702","title":{"rendered":"New York high court tosses Democrat-drawn redistricting maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s highest court on Wednesday tossed out the state\u2019s new congressional map, ruling that it amounted to an unconstitutional gerrymander intended to elect more Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling from the state Court of Appeals deals a major blow to Democrats\u2019 redistricting efforts in an already-difficult year for the party nationally. The maps out of New York had emerged as a bright spot for Democrats, who sought to more aggressively push their political advantage in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans need to net just five seats in the House to recapture a majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York\u2019s highest court on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47703,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47702\/revisions\/47703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}