Supreme Court Pauses Order to Redraw New York Map, Saving GOP District
The decision preserves the only GOP district in New York City.
The Supreme Court issued a stay of an order requiring New York to redraw its Congressional map, meaning the state will use the existing map in the 2026 elections.
The decision also saves the one Republican district in New York City.
“Here, our stay, far from causing disruption or upsetting legitimate expectations, eliminates much of the uncertainty and confusion that would exist if the Independent Redistricting Commission proceeded to draw a new district that this Court would likely strike down if the cases reached us in time,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) holds the 11th District, which includes Staten Island and South Brooklyn.
Well, we know the Democrats want to retake the House this year:
Last October, four New Yorkers sued to challenge the district held by Ms. Malliotakis. The case, filed by Elias Law Group, which has handled much of the Democratic Party’s redistricting litigation, signaled that New York had entered the national race to redraw maps before the midterms.
The challengers argued that the district map, which was redrawn in 2024, unconstitutionally diluted the power of Black and Latino voters. In January, a Manhattan judge found that the district had a pattern of “discrimination against minority voters.”
The judge, Justice Jeffrey H. Pearlman, a Democrat who previously served as special counsel to Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, ordered the state to convene the Independent Redistricting Commission to redraw the district maps.
Totes shocked that Pearlman ruled in that way.
Malliotakis filed an emergency application on February 12.
I’m also not shocked that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson dissented.
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The use of racial demographics to draw constitutional districts is anathema to the ideal we are meant to live up to.
Anyone arguing in favor of their use is unfit and their lawyers need to be sanctioned for not getting them help.
It is anathema, but unfortunately the current state of the law is confusing. The supreme court has so far refused to lay out a clear rule on the matter, so the current law seems to be that using race to district is unlawful except when it’s mandatory, and it’s almost impossible to predict in advance which is which. Whether you use race or not, the party that loses out by it will challenge it.
Hopefully the current Louisiana case will resolve this once and for all. In that case the state first drew a map, and the Dems challenged it because it wasn’t racially gerrymandered, and the court struck it down. So the state went back to the drawing board and redrew it with the racial bias that the court demanded, whereupon the Reps challenged it because it was racially gerrymandered. The state couldn’t win either way. So now it’s in the supreme court’s hands and we shall see how it rules.
Not really all that confusing here: These cases concern a state-court order that blatantly discriminates on the basis of race. The New York Supreme Court (that State’s trial-level court) ordered the New York Independent Redistricting Commission to draw a new congressional district for the express purpose of ensuring that
“minority voters” are able to elect the candidate of their choice.
draw a new congressional district for the express purpose of ensuring that
“minority voters” are able to elect the candidate of their choice
Which is such a horrifically racist concept. Right along with “blacks and minorities can’t get ID” is “only black people can represent black people, etc.” It’s evil.
Gee in almost 40 years I’ve never been able to elect a candidate of my choice for any congressional office in my state. In my mind that makes me a true “minority voter”. Skin shade is superficial.
Didnt virginia just go back on alll their dem “promises” not to draw the lines of racism
and vote to do their lines of racism
lefty has the balls
patriots are praying
win for the left
The 3 Amigos continue to show what partisan tool bags they are.
Either we have a system which allows race based advantages and race based disadvantages or we don’t. The text of the Constitution seems pretty clear that we don’t allow such discrimination and it is past time for SCOTUS to reverse course and put a final end to tolerating discrimination in any govt action, program, by any gov’t entity or private entity that receives govt funds.
What he said!
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