{"id":113645,"date":"2026-01-27T07:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:08:27","slug":"republicans-appeal-decision-that-threw-out-nycs-only-gop-controlled-house-district-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113645\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans appeal decision that threw out NYC&#8217;s only GOP-controlled House district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 New York\u2019s congressional redistricting battle is headed to the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on Monday appealed a judge\u2019s decision to toss the lines of New York City\u2019s only GOP-controlled House seat, asking the state\u2019s high court to take up a case that could have national reverberations in the fight for control of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The appeal came just days after a lower court judge ruled U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis\u2019 Staten Island and Brooklyn district was drawn in a way that dilutes the power of its Black and Hispanic voters. The judge ordered the state\u2019s Independent Redistricting Commission to complete a new map by Feb. 6. <\/p>\n<p>The case was filed by an election law firm aligned with the Democratic Party. It came as part of a national gerrymandering fight that started after President Donald Trump pushed to craft new congressional districts in Republican-controlled states such as Texas. <\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the New York\u2019s highest court, the Court of Appeals, rejected congressional maps that had been seen as helping Democrats and directed a court-appointed expert to redraw districts. It then threw out those maps before the 2024 congressional elections. It was not immediately clear when the Court of Appeals would take up the most recent case. <\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s current House districts were drawn by Democrats in the state Legislature, after they rejected a proposal from the state\u2019s bipartisan redistricting commission. New York state is currently represented in the House by 19 Democrats and 7 Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ktar923\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @ktar923<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" height=\"44\" width=\"365\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"830\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 New York\u2019s congressional redistricting battle is headed to the state\u2019s highest court. Republicans on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-113645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113645","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=113645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}