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GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN ASSAULTS DEMOCRACY - Democrats Try to Cheat Their Way to Retaking the House A plan to ram through gerrymandered redistricting maps in New York.
Democrats Try to Cheat Their Way to Retaking the House
A plan to ram through gerrymandered redistricting maps in New York.
In order to take back control of the House of Representatives, the Democrats are eyeing several seats in New York that flipped to the Republicans in the 2022 midterm election cycle. Winning these seats was critical in securing the House majority for the Republicans. Now the Democrats want the seats back. But they are not content with simply taking their message to the voters and competing for their votes on the issues. Instead, the Democrats are trying to cheat their way to victory.
With the full support of the national House Democratic leadership, New York State Democrats are seeking a do-over of what is supposed to be a once-in-a-decade redistricting process based on the results of the most recent U.S. census. Last year the New York State Court of Appeals had ordered the drawing of competitive districts by a neutral court-appointed expert in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. The purpose was to replace the Democrat-controlled New York State Legislature’s flagrantly gerrymandered district maps that violated a New York State constitutional amendment adopted by the voters outlawing partisan gerrymandering. The Legislature had seized control of the redistricting process and corrupted it after the bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission established by the constitutional amendment was deadlocked, leading to intervention by the Court of Appeals. Now the Democrats are trying to seize control of the redistricting process again to thwart fair congressional elections in 2024.
In a lawsuit funded by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats are seeking to throw out the competitive districts that were drawn by order of the New York State Court of Appeals. The Democrats’ justification for their outrageous gambit is that these competitive districts were only valid for the 2022 elections and that the bipartisan commission needs to go back to work to redraw the districts for the remainder of the decade.
Never mind that the Court of Appeals did not indicate in its decision that its intent was only to order a limited, one-time temporary fix. In the absence of such an explicit statement of intent, the presumption should be that last year’s court-ordered congressional district maps are final and in place until after the 2030 census. The New York Constitution states:
“The process for redistricting congressional and state legislative districts established by this section and sections five and five-b of this article shall govern redistricting in this state except to the extent that a court is required to order the adoption of, or changes to, a redistricting plan as a remedy for a violation of law. A reapportionment plan and the districts contained in such plan shall be in force until the effective date of a plan based upon the subsequent federal decennial census taken in a year ending in zero unless modified pursuant to court order.” (NY Const, Art. III, § 4 [e])
The only modifications that the Court of Appeals ordered last year were to the unconstitutional maps that the Legislature drew up in its effort to rig the system. It makes no sense that the Court of Appeals contemplated giving the New York Legislature the opportunity so soon to manipulate the redistricting process again in advance of the 2024 elections.
The National Republican Campaign Committee correctly called the Democrats’ legal challenge “a blatant partisan power grab thinly disguised as a court case.” However, the Democrats’ cynical ploy is working so far. An intermediate appellate New York court, the Appellate Division of the of the State Supreme Court in Albany, agreed with the Democrats’ position. Its July 13th decision concluded that the Court of Appeals’ order last year applied only to the 2022 elections as a temporary fix to a procedural problem caused by the Independent Redistricting Commission’s failure to complete its work properly. The Appellate Division court majority found that the commission erred in not submitting a second set of redistricting maps to the Legislature after the first set went nowhere. The Appellate Division court ordered that the commission restart the redistricting process to correct this error.
Counting on the likelihood that the commission will once again be deadlocked, Democrats are salivating at the prospect that the Democrat-dominated New York State Legislature will again ultimately take over and manipulate the redistricting process to their partisan advantage.
Republicans have vowed to appeal the Appellate Division’s decision to the New York State Court of Appeals. But they are likely to have an uphill battle since the composition of New York’s highest court has moved decidedly to the left since 2022. Judge Rowan D. Wilson, a liberal, dissented from the Court of Appeals’ 2022 decision. In 2023, he replaced the prior chief judge who resigned a few months after writing the majority decision concluding that Democratic legislative leaders had created gerrymandered congressional district maps in violation of the New York State Constitution. Liberal Caitlin Halligan in turn was confirmed to fill the vacancy left by Judge Wilson’s promotion from associate judge to chief judge, creating a 4-3 liberal majority on the Court of Appeals.
With these changes, the risk to fair congressional elections in New York next year is that today’s more progressive Court of Appeals will reverse the 2022 decision by what was then a more centrist Court of Appeals that mandated competitively drawn congressional districts. The Democrats could well win via litigation before a receptive court what they fear they cannot win legitimately at the ballot box in fair elections.
Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer, and the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, The United Nations & Radical Islam.
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Upstate Motel Kicks Out Guests After NYC Moves Migrants In
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A motel in upstate New York kicked out guests this week to make room for a busload of migrants from New York City.
The facility, a Super 8 motel in Rotterdam, kicked guests out without warning, including some in poverty, the Times Union reported. Officials reportedly had signed a contract with the hotel to house the migrants who originally were sent from Texas.
"There are so many questions we have," Rotterdam town supervisor Mollie Collins said. "Because we haven’t been given any information."
Some of those kicked out of their rooms were people who get assistance from the Department of Social Services in Montgomery County, a neighboring jurisdiction.
New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.), who has overseen the busing of migrants to other parts of the state despite advertising his city as a sanctuary city, said the displaced guests were offered "extended stay" lodging at no charge nearby.
"Guests at that hotel were all offered to be relocated and booked for an extended stay at a comparable hotel in the same area free of charge," Adams’s office said. "All but one reservation took our contractor up on that offer and instead preferred to be re-booked at the comparable hotel on a daily basis, which we facilitated."
New York City this week announced it will distribute notices at the U.S.-Mexico border to tell migrants to "consider another city."
"Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.," the notice reads in English and Spanish.
New York City sued counties that refused to accept migrants from the city in June. Thirty-three counties and one town were named in the suit. The localities filed emergency orders to keep migrants bused in from New York City from staying in their hotels.
Adams first called for busing migrants to surrounding counties in May. Localities quickly declared emergencies, including Rockland and Orange Counties, which were slated to receive hundreds of migrants to fill their hotels. Both counties are named in the suit.
Adams has criticized Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) for "deciding to play politics with people's lives" by busing migrants to other states.
"Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration," Adams tweeted while campaigning for mayor in 2021.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will begin warning illegal aliens at the United States-Mexico border not to travel and resettle in New York City, telling them that the cost of housing is high and that they are not guaranteed shelter or care.
Since the spring of last year, more than 90,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in sanctuary New York City. The majority, about 55,000, are living off local taxpayers in city-run hotel rooms, shelters, and other facilities.
Now, Adams has said his office will begin issuing fliers to border crossers and illegal aliens begging them not to travel to New York City — warning them about the high cost of living and housing prices and asking them to “please consider another city” to resettle.
Flier via NYC.gov
On Thursday, Adams said New York City has “reached full capacity.”
“We’re going to see how much of our cup has basically runneth over. We have no more room in the city and we need help,” Adams said.
Last month, Breitbart News reported how Adams has started sending border crossers and illegal aliens to other states and cities — a policy he has long blasted Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) for implementing, calling it “anti-American.”
The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.
Every day, illegal immigration is costing New Yorkers nearly $8 million, and by the middle of next year, Adams predicts it will have cost more than $4.2 billion.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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More than five million illegal aliens have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden took office, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. With some exceptions, these migrants tend to be low-skilled, poor, and come from countries where violence is normal and women and certain minorities are degraded. By importing millions of foreign nationals who come from countries with cultures and values that are diametrically opposed to ours, American leaders are setting the stage for exactly the kind of strife and turmoil that is occurring in France.
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A business-tied advocacy group, the ACLU, and various progressive advocacy groups have launched a lawsuit campaign against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ss popular, wage-boosting curbs on illegal migration.
DeSantis’s law against illegal migration “goes far beyond the federal scheme, penalizing a wide array of conduct that Congress chose not to prohibit [and] impedes the federal immigration scheme by preventing immigrants from entering Florida,” says the lawsuit by the establishment coalition, which includes the ACLU, the progressive-run Farmworker Association of Florida, and the American Immigration Council.
The council is a spinoff of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In 2021, it merged with the “New American Economy” advocacy group that was created by two pro-migration media billionaires — Rupert Murdoch who owns Fox, and Michael Bloomberg who owns Bloomberg News.
DeSantis’s new law curbs the transport of migrants into Florida and requires many employers to use the federal E-Verify system to exclude illegal migrants from jobs.
The lawsuit is aimed at the transport curbs, saying DeSantis’s law “unconstitutionally criminalizes the act of transporting a broad category of immigrants into Florida.
Many business groups have denounced DeSantis’s law because it reduces the number of illegals who will work for cheap. For example, the Wall Street Journalreported on July 3:
In downtown Miami, construction cranes are ubiquitous, rising above the fast-growing skyline. At site after site, the story was the same. Workers have fled. Many others are waiting to see what happens.
Outside one construction site, a worker said that he had lost about half his crew. They went to Indiana, he said, where jobs are paying $38 an hour instead of $25, and where they won’t have to look over their shoulders.
The alliance between the cheap-labor business groups and the pro-migration progressives is intended to slow the exit of migrants — regardless of the pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
“It is seldom that labor and business are on the same page — but on this one, I think, we have some common ground,” said Jeannie Economos, a manager at the Farmworker Association of Florida, which is the leading plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Correspondingly, DeSantis’s push to expel illegals from Florida is good for ordinary Americans, partly because it reduces the cost of housing and forces U.S. employers to raise wages in Florida.
“Some [employers] have raised wages” for Americans, Economos admitted to Breitbart News.
“Armando Oyola, the owner of Aegis Construction Services, has lost four of roughly 50 workers already due to the bill,” SarasotaMagazine.com reported on June 14:
“A documented worker that’s good will make between $20 to $30 an hour,” he adds. “An undocumented [worker] gets roughly $150 a day for 10-hour days.” But with fewer workers to choose from, Oyola sees raises on the horizon. “Guys who were making $20 are going to want double to compensate for the market,” he says. “Eventually, they’ll get those raises, and it will trickle down to the homebuyer.”
The owner of a Naples construction company, Valdez, who is also from Mexico, stayed home in solidarity with his Hispanic workers who boycotted Florida’s new immigration law.
Since DeSantis signed the immigration bill, Valdez has lost 15 of his best [illegal migrant] workers, who have moved to other states like Illinois and North Carolina.
He used to pay painters $18-$20 an hour. Now, he’s paying $30-$35, which ended up increasing the costs for his work. “I have to adapt,” he said.’
The real-world response matches the predictions of a 2020 report funded by FWD.us, which is an advocacy group for wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg.
If “existing undocumented workers were to exit the Florida economy in the number anticipated were E-Verify were [sic] to be adopted, the adequate numbers of native workers would not be available at current wage rates,” said the draft report funded by FWD.us.
Most reporters are framing the Florida dispute as a battle for “migrant rights” — not as a pocketbook fight between employers and employees. In large part, this media skew reflects the economic interest of the investors who fund or own U.S. media companies, and their ability to hire compliant reporters.
But some media outlets are following the money.
Under DeSantis’s law, employers will “have to pay higher wages to documented workers or citizen workers than they would to someone who’s here illegally and was happy to work for these lesser wages,” Sean Snaith, the director of the Institute for Economic Forecast at the University of Central Florida, told ClickOrlando.com.
The migrant inflow has successfullyforced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rentsandhousing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to therising death rateof poor Americans.
The lethal policy sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow alsoreduces the politicalcloutof native-born Americans because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interestsof ordinary Americans and from the growing chaos and poverty of American society.
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