New York Will Get New Congressional Maps, Again
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamus Newsroom, |
| 0:17.2 | filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:19.0 | On today's show, in the wake of George Floyd's death, |
| 0:21.9 | police departments around the country promised transparency |
| 0:24.6 | and accountability in the form of body camera insulation. |
| 0:30.1 | Later in the show, we'll talk to ProPublica's Eric Humansky about a six-month investigation into the way police departments do and do not use body cameras. |
| 0:39.0 | Then we'll take a closer look at the new online shopping competitors to Amazon. |
| 0:43.4 | Where did they come from and why are their prices so low? |
| 0:47.0 | And we'll close the show with the executive director of New York |
| 0:50.9 | cares and we'll ask you, how are you giving back during the |
| 0:54.7 | holidays. But first a major decision out of New York State's highest court is |
| 1:00.4 | sending reverberations around the country as races for control of the House of |
| 1:05.0 | Representatives heat up next year. In a four to three ruling, the Court tossed out |
| 1:10.6 | congressional maps drawn for the 2022 election and ruled that the state's independent |
| 1:16.5 | redistricting commission must go back to work and draw new congressional district lines ahead of next year's pivotal House elections. |
| 1:25.6 | This bipartisan commission, which has not had much luck in the past, now has to literally |
| 1:31.4 | go back to the drawing board with a February deadline and if they |
| 1:34.8 | can't create maps that they agree on well then the process kicks back over to the |
| 1:39.2 | state legislature which is controlled by the Democrats. |
| 1:43.4 | If it feels like we've been having a version of this conversation for a while now, |
| 1:47.7 | that's because we have, but the stakes are as high as ever once again. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

