Gov. Kathy Hochul is labeling Republican-led redistricting in Texas a “legal insurrection” and a “blatant power grab,” sharpening her rhetoric as she urges New Yorkers to back a constitutional change allowing the state to redraw its congressional maps before 2032.

New York’s next planned redistricting is in 2032. But appearing on Fox News Sunday, Hochul defended a mid-decade redistricting process, which would require changing the state’s constitution, if it could happen at all.

"I'm not going to let our democracy be eroded away because there's a blatant power grab to maintain power in our nation's capital," Hochul said. "This is what I call a legal insurrection. Legal insurrection."

It’s a move that would go against more than 15 years of advocacy by progressives in her own party to de

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