New York’s congressional and state Senate primary elections will be pushed back nearly two months to Aug. 23, after the state’s highest court struck down the new district maps drawn by Democrats and approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul as unconstitutional.
State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister delayed the primaries from its original June 28 date, according to a decision released Friday.
He also ordered that the court-appointed special master, Jonathan Cervas, must create and publicly release new “impartial redistricting maps” for the US House of Representatives and state Senate by a May 20 deadline.
The Empire State is now on track to host two separate primaries, as
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