By Kanishka Singh<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A New York judge ruled on Wednesday that Republican \u200bU.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis’ district – New York City’s \u200conly Republican-held congressional district – violates the state’s constitution and should be \u200credrawn by February 6.<\/p>\n
Republicans are expected to appeal the decision by New York state Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman, who concluded in the order that the \u2060Staten Island-based 11th \u200cDistrict had diluted Latino and Black voting power.<\/p>\n
New York’s independent redistricting commission should redraw \u200dNew York’s congressional map by February 6, according to the order. A lawsuit filed last year had argued that the \u200bdistrict disenfranchised Black and Latino voters.<\/p>\n
Pearlman’s order declaring \u200cthe district configuration unconstitutional cited provisions in New York’s state constitution that bar the denial or abridgement of minority voting rights.<\/p>\n
There is a nationwide battle over redistricting between Republicans and Democrats ahead of the \u2060November 2026 midterm elections, when control \u200bof the U.S. Congress will \u200bbe at stake.<\/p>\n
Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress.<\/p>\n
Ceding control of \u200deither the House \u2060of Representatives or Senate to the Democrats in the elections would endanger President Donald Trump’s legislative \u2060agenda and open the door to Democratic-led congressional investigations targeting \u200cthe Republican leader.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; \u200cEditing by Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A New York judge ruled on Wednesday that Republican \u200bU.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34697,48678,9,24,55,54,887,56,2134],"class_list":["post-108001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-congressional-district","tag-jeffrey-pearlman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nicole-malliotakis","tag-ny","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}