State’s Highest Court Tosses Gerrymandered Congressional, State Senate District Lines
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Bridget Fleming and Nick LaLota are vying for the 1st Congressional District seat.
Bridget Fleming and Nick LaLota are vying for the 1st Congressional District seat.
Stephen J. Kotz on Apr 28, 2022
The New York State Court of Appeals on Wednesday, April 27, ruled that Democrats had violated the State Constitution when they unilaterally redrew state and congressional districts, resulting in gerrymandered... more
It’s almost quaint to remember, a decade ago, the standing complaint within the Republican Party that the Democrats were relying too much on “judicial activism” to enact policy. Complaints about so-called activist judges became part of the standard rhetoric, and it continues to this day: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had the gall to cite what he said was Ketanji Brown Jackson’s history of “judicial activism” as a reason he voted against her appointment to the Supreme Court. “We’ve seen over and over that when judicial activism triumphs over fidelity to the rule of law, our courts mutate, mutate into ...
by Staff Writer
There must be something in the water here in Westhampton, besides the concern over contamination turning up in our wells. My neighbor Mike Anthony is claiming that half of my fellow Republicans are adherents of an obscure philosophy he calls “the Great Replacement Theory” [“Party Of Lies,” Letters, May 19]. I consider myself pretty well informed but can’t say this is high on my radar screen these days. I will forgive Anthony for the title “Party of Lies” for his submission, as it probably was selected by someone at the paper. But just because an 18-year-old is seduced by some ...
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By Robert A. Durkin Ah, yes, fear, “a thousand forms of fear.” I have only the slightest memory of once having been without fear. And I have begun to suspect that its absence is an attribute only of the very young human animal. Elders, first in the best interest of their offspring, and then from the depths of inherited fears and deeply ingrained habits and fears of their own, instill fear in their young. Sadly many such installations are done without the essential component of an off switch, or even a damper that can be used to turn an irrational ...
25 May 2022 by Robert A. Durkin
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Stephen J. Kotz on Apr 28, 2022