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Yesterday the State Court of Appeals began hearing arguments on whether New York's

congressional lines should be redrawn again. Obviously it could have statewide implications but it could also

affect the balance of power in Washington. With us to talk about the hearing and New York's

redistricting efforts is WNYC's Albany reporter John Campbell.

Hi John.

Hi Tiffany.

All right if we have time in addition to redistricting John I'd like to get your take on

where what bills rather we might see Governor Hockel signing before the end of the year and maybe actually take a quick look ahead at January's legislative calendar as well.

Now, John, this redistricting process has been a bit of a soap opera so I

would like to if listeners will bear with us because I know not everybody is

really plugged into the history on this and it's complicated and I think

history will give us context for what happened yesterday so we're going to try to get to a little bit

of that

before we talk exactly about what happened in yesterday's hearing because just

talking about that in a vacuum won't really make any sense so let's go back to

24 get back in the way back machine with me john we we're going to go back to 2014.

Voters in New York approved a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting

commission.

This was after the 2020 census, right? This commission couldn't really do what they were supposed to do, right?

Yeah, so this was the 2010 census, they redraw the lines once every 10 years in every state that

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