{"id":151077,"date":"2026-03-03T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151077\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:25:08","slug":"supreme-court-saves-rep-nicole-malliotakis-staten-island-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151077\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court saves Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ Staten Island district"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York) a lifeline<\/a> by ruling that her Staten Island-based district does not need to be redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterm congressional elections.<\/p>\n

The conservative top court blocked a state court judge\u2019s ruling that ordered the state\u2019s redistricting committee to redraw the lines of the GOP-friendly district<\/a> because he said it unfairly diluted the power of Black and Latino voters.<\/p>\n

The ruling means Malliotakis\u2019 NY-11 district will likely remain unchanged<\/a>, covering Staten Island and a small slice of Republican-leaning south Brooklyn, at least through the fall midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is unadorned racial discrimination, an inherently \u2018odious\u2019 activity that violates the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause except in the \u2018most extraordinary case,\u2019\u201d Justice Samuel Alito wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The outcome amounts to a victory for Republicans<\/a> in the unprecedented mid-decade tug-of-war over redistricting<\/a> that could help determine control of the closely divided House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Republicans currently hold a narrow four-seat majority<\/a> in the House and polls say they are likely to face a difficult political environment in the fall midterms.<\/p>\n

Malliotakis, the only Republican congressional representative from New York City, praised the high court ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank the justices who stopped the voters on Staten Island and in southern Brooklyn from being stripped of their ability to elect a representative who reflects their values,\u201d Malliotakis said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Assuming there are no further unexpected legal twists, the ruling also sets the stage anew for a spirited Democratic primary fight<\/a> between Rep. Dan Goldman and former Controller Brad Lander in the neighboring NY-10 district.<\/p>\n

Goldman, a pro-Israel moderate, was considered likely to switch into the NY-11<\/a> race if Malliotakis\u2019 district was redrawn to include portions of deep-blue lower Manhattan. Now he and Lander, a progressive favorite, will likely face off in a primary for NY-10, which spans lower Manhattan and a large swath of brownstone Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Supreme Court handed Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-New York) a lifeline by ruling that her Staten Island-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8069,858,5320,10881,9,24,887,63,12994,27228,134,136,135,2973,12892],"class_list":{"0":"post-151077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-brad-lander","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-dan-goldman","11":"tag-democratic","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nicole-malliotakis","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-redistricting","17":"tag-samuel-alito","18":"tag-staten-island","19":"tag-staten-island-headlines","20":"tag-staten-island-news","21":"tag-supreme-court","22":"tag-voting-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151077","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=151077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}