{"id":220254,"date":"2026-05-05T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220254\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:45:17","slug":"new-york-democrats-respond-to-national-redistricting-fight-with-initiative-to-redraw-state-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220254\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Democrats respond to national redistricting fight with initiative to redraw state districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York Congressmen and Democrats Joe Morelle and Hakeem Jeffries announced a redistricting initiative Monday.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re calling it the \u201cNew York Democracy Project.\u201d The two will travel to Albany on Tuesday to talk with state leaders about re-drawing New York\u2019s districts.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is in response to redistricting efforts in Florida and a Supreme Court ruling last week that invalidated majority-Black districts in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/rep-joe-morelle\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Joe Morelle<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/redistricting\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">redistricting<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York Congressmen and Democrats Joe Morelle and Hakeem Jeffries announced a redistricting initiative Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4008,9,11,10,12994,60685],"class_list":["post-220254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-redistricting","tag-rep-joe-morelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}