Cardin’s 3rd District in what was rumored to be political punishment for Cardin’s considering a gubernatorial run against Lt. This Jewish Times article states: “For the residents of District 3, it’s a far cry from the controversy of a decade ago. 4, 2012, the Baltimore Sun published an article based on my research, “3rd District called a ‘religious gerrymander.’”įirst, I found a little history on what may have caused the original religious gerrymandering. 14, 2011, as a congressional redistricting buff, I got interested in the topic of “religious gerrymandering” by reading the Baltimore Jewish Times’ headline, “Drawing The Line: Bulk of area Jews to stay in Sarbanes’ district, according to proposed congressional redistricting.” Several other candidates of different races and ethnicities are also running there.īack on Oct. They argued that it would discriminate against the Orthodox Jewish community of Borough Park in Brooklyn, which would be divided into two districts, the 9th and 10th, diluting the organizing power of voters there.įormer New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would be running for Congress in the new 10th District, which stretches from his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to Lower Manhattan and includes a chunk of Orthodox voters in Borough Park. The New York Post headlined an article “NYC Jews latest to claim discrimination after Democrats’ gerrymander.” It told readers that several Brooklyn lawmakers criticized the state court-appointed special master’s congressional map. Rarely do the East Side Jews belong to synagogues located on the West Side, or vice versa.” The boundaries were challenged by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, which wrote in a letter outlining the cultural distinctions that “East Side Jews can be clearly differentiated from West Side Jews. Several Jewish publications in New York argued that mapmakers should not put Manhattan’s East Side and West Side into the same district. Surprisingly, this long New York Times article does not mention the concept of Jewish gerrymandering, though Jewish voters in New York are clearly displeased with the redrawn results. East Sider Maloney and West Sider Nadler, the only current Democratic member of New York’s House delegation who is Jewish, have represented their respective neighborhoods for 30 years in Congress. Jerrold Nadler (D) and Carolyn Maloney (D) against each other in the Aug. It created a new 12th District that combined the East and West Sides of Manhattan into a single district for the first time since World War II. Last month New York State Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister, who happens to be a Republican, finalized the Empire State’s congressional map. Nadler? New York Must Pick a Side (East or West),” read a recent headline in The New York Times. The writer is a Maryland redistricting reform activist.
Maryland’s new congressional map, which is being used for the first time in the 2022 elections.
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