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New York Daily News – The Senate Democrats are joining the legal battle to force independent redistricting.

Following up on Erica Pearson’s story in today’s Daily News about the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s lawsuit, Senate Democrats revealed Friday that they too have filed papers to join the legal tussle over redistricting.

“My co-defendants on LATFOR have demonstrated a history of divisiveness, inability to agree, and partisanship at the expense of carrying: out our mandate, particularly with respect to the prisoner real location law,” state Senator Martin Dilan (D-Brooklyn) wrote in his legal papers…(cont.)

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By Glenn Bain