This week: Early Voting Law Challenge Proceeds in Federal Court; N.Y.C. Campaign Finance Board Actions; Court Expels Twenty Working Families Party Members from Party; Voters Should Mail Completed Ballots Early Following USPS Postmark Changes; Nassau GOP Removes Doctored Photo of N.Y.C. Mayor Mamdani with Local Democratic Candidate; Voting Rights Act Preclearance; Around the Nation
This week:
New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting Advances; Reapportionment vs. Redistricting- What’s the Difference?; CUNY Mapping Service Updates Online Maps; Menin Appoints Wice to NYC Campaign Finance Board; Working Families Party Challenges Candidates; Even Year Election Voting for Cities Amendment Passed by Legislature; New Judicial Districts Legislation Passed by Legislature; Election Law Reforms Passed by Legislature; Voting Rights Act Preclearance; SCOTUS Allows Alabama to Use Map with One Minority District; Around the Nation
REDISTRICTING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
New Redistricting Constitutional Amendment Introduced
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 amendment (S.10637/A.11553) to amend the state constitution’s redistricting sections. The amendment is expected to be voted on by the Senate and Assembly on Thursday, June 4th before the chambers adjourn the regular 2026 session.
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On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the Center for New York City and State Law, with the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Alliance, hosted “Big Things Happening in Queens,” a look into economic and infrastructure large-scale projects around the borough. New York Law School Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy Matt Gewolb offered opening remarks. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards gave keynote remarks and Maya Handa, NYC’s 2026 World Cup Czar also offered … <Read More>
This week: What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting- And Beyond?; Blakeman Wins Funding Challenge Against State Public Finance Campaign Board; Candidate Validating Procedures; Blakeman Seeing Third Party Line in November?; State Funds Census 2030 Efforts With a New Census Commission; Attorney General’s Preclearance Activity; Post-Callais Action: Louisiana Enacts New Congressional Map; Around the Nation (From Redistricting Network)
This week:
What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting- And Beyond?; State Public Finance Campaign Board to Hear Blakeman Funding Appeal; Procedural Pitfalls in Election Litigation; Why the 2030 LUCA Program Matters to Redistricting; Attorney General’s Preclearance Activity; Employment Opportunities; Around the Nation (From Redistricting Network)