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Only Supreme Court Remains: Ruling Allows Dem-Friendly Redrawing of Staten Island’s Congressional Map
The appeals court found the current district map dilutes minority voters' power and ordered a redraw that could flip the Republican-held seat, with Republicans appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- On Feb. 19, a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, ordered redraw of NY-11, lifting a stay on Justice Jeffrey Pearlman’s Jan. 21 order.
- Plaintiffs from Staten Island and Brooklyn sued earlier this year, arguing the current boundaries unlawfully diluted Black and Latino votes in NY-11, and Justice Jeffrey Pearlman found a constitutional violation.
- A proposed redesign would pair Staten Island with Lower Manhattan, likely flipping the seat from red to blue and benefiting Rep. Dan Goldman, D-New York, and Brad Lander.
- Republicans have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis filing emergency appeals as candidate nominating-petition circulation begins Feb. 24, 2026.
- This fight is part of a broader mid-decade redistricting trend that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court, with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James urging state-court resolution amid New York’s 19-to-7 congressional split affecting the national House majority contest.
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Redrawing New York City's only GOP congressional seat as election deadlines loom
New York's Appellate Division allowed the state's redistricting commission to begin redrawing district lines for the only Republican-held congressional seat in New York City, after a lower court order invalidated the 11th Congressional District, days before candidates are supposed to start collecting signatures to get on the ballot.
Democrats ask Supreme Court not to disrupt New York redistricting dispute
Two separate groups of New York voters and elected officials on Thursday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by a state trial judge in Manhattan that would bar the state from using its existing congressional map in the 2026 elections. Instead, the ruling by Justice Jeffrey Pearlman of the New York Supreme Court – which is a trial court in that state – would require New York to redraw the map on the ground that it diluted…
New York asks Supreme Court not to block new congressional map
New York officials urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the GOP’s petition seeking to maintain New York City’s lone GOP-held House seat to its current boundaries for the 2026 election. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and other New York Republican officials filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court last week asking for the justices to halt a state court’s ruling that ordered the Empire State’s 11th Congressional District to be redr…
Only Supreme Court remains: Ruling allows Dem-friendly redrawing of Staten Island’s congressional map
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The U.S. Supreme Court may be the only thing standing in the way of a Democratic gerrymander of Staten Island’s congressional district after a Thursday decision from the state Appellate Division.
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Republicans hope Supreme Court can stop new lines being drawn for NYC’s only GOP House seat
Republicans are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the boundaries of the only red congressional seat in New York City from being redrawn.
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