Unmapped - Update on New York Redistricting - NYTimes.com With just 16 weeks until its Congressional primary, New York still has not approved political districts. State Assembly and Senate leaders have proposed new legislative districts, but the approval process stalled after critics called the maps gerrymandered to protect incumbents and unfair to minority groups. The existing proposal would increase the size of the Senate to 63 members from 62, but that move is being challenged in state court. Meanwhile, after Albany lawmakers were unable to agree on new Congressional districts, the leaders of the State Legislature made separate proposals to a magistrate appointed by a panel of federal judges who are overseeing a redistricting lawsuit. Late Monday evening, the magistrate judge, Roanne L. Mann of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, released her own proposal for how the state could redraw its Congressional map. As expected, Judge Mann proposed eliminating the mid-Hudson Valley district represented by Maurice D. Hinchey, a Democrat not seeking re-election, and splitting its territory among several surrounding districts. She also proposed to carve up the district in Brooklyn and Queens represented by Bob Turner, a Republican who won an upset victory in the special election last fall for the unexpired term of Anthony D. Weiner, a Democrat. Legislative leaders are still trying to work out a bipartisan compromise to redraw the state's Congressional map and prevent the courts from imposing a plan. The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, told reporters on Tuesday that it was the Legislature's "responsibility, ultimately," to come to an agreement. "I think maybe what the judge did was give us the impetus, or the template, to now make the necessary deals," Mr. Silver said. Judge Mann said she would accept written feedback on her proposal until 9 a.m. on Wednesday. She is due to present a final proposal on Monday to a three-judge panel that is overseeing a lawsuit challenging the redistricting process. The judicial panel has indicated that it will then accept further public feedback, and could make additional modifications to the proposal before imposing it. The judges want to put a Congressional map in place by March 20, when the petitioning period for prospective Congressional candidates is scheduled to begin. Lawmakers are also trying to reach a compromise on revised legislative districts; the federal court has not yet become involved with that process.