Brooklyn Democrats Change Rules Before New Leader is Elected; Democrats ask State Elections Board to Investigate Trump Event; Even Year Voting Law Challenged as Voting Rights Violation; State Board of ...

The rapid growth of State Voting Rights Acts (“State VRAs”) has become one of the most significant developments in election law over the past decade. In every year since 2018, except for the pandemic ...

Former Mayor Eric Adams appointed the so-called “zombie” NYC Charter Revision Commission on his final day in office, with its main agenda item focused on creating open primaries for city elections. On ...

Former Mayor Eric Adams appointed the so-called “zombie” NYC Charter Revision Commission on his final day in office, with its main agenda focused on open primaries. On May 27, Mayor Mamdani disbanded ...

Early Voting Law Challenge: New York Republican State Committee v. State of New York The New York Republican State Committee filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York last year ...

The Assembly and Senate approved legislation moving forward a constitutional amendment to reform New York’s redistricting process last week (S.10637/A.11553). If approved again by the new legislature ...

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 ...

This evening, the Center for New York City and State Law at New York Law School will host the second in a three part series “The Making of a Housing Crisis and How to Solve It.” Tonight’s program will ...

What’s Next For New York’s Mid-Decade Redistricting? The state legislature is expected to approve one or more constitutional amendments to permit the legislature to draw a new congressional map before ...

$30 Million to Protect $186 Billion: The Case for Investing in Census Accuracy in New York State As state budget negotiations continue on Albany where up to $30 million is being discussed to support ...

In a late January decision, Justice Jeffrey Pearlman in the New York County State Supreme Court deemed the 2024 Congressional Map unconstitutional under Article III, Section 4(c)(1) of the New York ...