The New York Times is referring to it as an “Extinction Level Event.” The state’s highest court tossed out the partisan Democratic map that would have destroyed the GOP in New York by drawing districts that would have eliminated five Republican seats, and another court appointed a special master, Jonathan Cervas of Carnegie Mellon University, to draw a map that was a little fairer.

Since New York is losing one congressional seat, the job of finding districts for all 19 Democrats currently in Congress was going to be a challenge. Instead of a nice, orderly process, Democrats have gone nuclear on each other, with some members accusing the powerful chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), of “racism.”

Maloney responded to the court decision by abandoning his old congressional seat and running instead in the newly drawn 17th district. That district is represented by a member of his caucus, progressive freshman Mondaire Jones, who will now have to decide whether he wants to face Maloney in the 17th district or ideological ally Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D.) in the neighboring 16th district.