Lawsuit Plunges New York Into the National Gerrymandering Fight

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A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state’s 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way that disenfranchises Black and Latino voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/nyregion/new-york-state-redistricting-lawsuit.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251027&instance_id=165236&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=82070660&segment_id=209421&user_id=0be3b67ae7031af55ebcbfadb31786d5

A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes in a district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The New York Times.

The case marked New York’s official entrance into the national gerrymandering arms race. Rewriting the state’s existing congressional districts represents one of Democrats’ best hopes of improving their chances in the 2026 midterm elections.

Filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit argues that the lines for the 11th Congressional District unfairly disenfranchise Black and Latino residents under the state’s newly passed Voting Rights Act. The district is represented by Representative Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of Congress in New York City.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated she is willing redraw Congressional Maps. Stopping 47's rigging of 2026 Election must be stopped.

 

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A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state’s 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way that disenfranchises Black and Latino voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/nyregion/new-york-state-redistricting-lawsuit.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251027&instance_id=165236&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=82070660&segment_id=209421&user_id=0be3b67ae7031af55ebcbfadb31786d5

A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes in a district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The New York Times.

The case marked New York’s official entrance into the national gerrymandering arms race. Rewriting the state’s existing congressional districts represents one of Democrats’ best hopes of improving their chances in the 2026 midterm elections.

Filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit argues that the lines for the 11th Congressional District unfairly disenfranchise Black and Latino residents under the state’s newly passed Voting Rights Act. The district is represented by Representative Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of Congress in New York City.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated she is willing redraw Congressional Maps. Stopping 47's rigging of 2026 Election must be stopped.

Too bad this case will be rendered moot once the SC hopefully ends racial gerrymandering using the case just argued.

 

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A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state’s 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way that disenfranchises Black and Latino voters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/nyregion/new-york-state-redistricting-lawsuit.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251027&instance_id=165236&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=82070660&segment_id=209421&user_id=0be3b67ae7031af55ebcbfadb31786d5

A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes in a district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The New York Times.

The case marked New York’s official entrance into the national gerrymandering arms race. Rewriting the state’s existing congressional districts represents one of Democrats’ best hopes of improving their chances in the 2026 midterm elections.

Filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit argues that the lines for the 11th Congressional District unfairly disenfranchise Black and Latino residents under the state’s newly passed Voting Rights Act. The district is represented by Representative Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of Congress in New York City.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated she is willing redraw Congressional Maps. Stopping 47's rigging of 2026 Election must be stopped.

We seem to be moving more and more into the civil discourse direction. Progressives are slowly giving their wealth to red states. They infected former red states with their subterfuge agendas and now the states are affecting their own economies as for some people not affording it anymore and some businesses starting to move to red areas.

 

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A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state’s 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way that disenfranchises Black and Latino voters.

Who is to blame here?
Democrats.