NY's Senate leader says the state must 'fight fire with fire' to preserve democracy amid the gerrymandering gauntlet Trump has thrown down.

Stewart-Cousins spoke exclusively to USA TODAY Network about her plans for upcoming legislative debate in Albany on redistricting fight that could determine who controls Congress.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she's not ready for New York to scrap its independent redistricting body, or to shed the good-government ideals that led to its creation.

But in a USA Today Network interview on Sept. 19, the Yonkers Democrat declared her support for amending the state constitution to pick up the gerrymandering gauntlet President Donald Trump has thrown down. New York, she said, can't unilaterally disarm itself in a race against Repu

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