House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Tuesday threw his support behind a proposed New York constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state’s redistricting process, casting the effort as a response to Republican-led map redrawing in other states and declaring that “the Empire State will strike back.”

First reported by Politico, the proposal would amend New York’s constitution to allow lawmakers to redraw congressional districts before the next scheduled redistricting cycle and loosen some of the restrictions governing the process.