Kate Lisa is reporting for State of Politics the New York State Assembly maps adopted by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in February are now void, a state Appellate Court ruled on June 10. However, those district lines will remain in place for the June 28 primary and the Nov. 8 general election. "This was a great day, not just for me, not just the other petitioners, but for all New Yorkers who value the law and value the constitution," said New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax, who filed the initial challenge to the state Assembly maps. "Today is the day we went up against the Albany machine and we won." State Appellate Judge Susanna Molina Rojas ruled the maps were invalid because the Legislature drew its own lines after the state Independent Redistricting Commission failed to propose a second set of maps. Hochul's office said she is reviewing the decision. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's office declined to comment. "It's a huge win for democracy in New York," said plaintiff Gary Greenberg, a Democrat and an activist based in New Baltimore. Molina Rojas wrote in the decision, "The request for a delay of the 2022 assembly primary elections is denied in any event, because the redrawing and implementing of a new assembly map before a 2022 primary election delayed even until September is, at this late date, no longer feasible." Read the more at nystateofpolitics [dot] com.