{"id":19837,"date":"2025-10-28T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19837\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:09:06","slug":"legal-battle-brews-over-new-yorks-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19837\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Battle Brews Over New York\u2019s Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lawsuit filed by a Democratic law firm says New York’s 11th congressional district, which covers parts of southern Brooklyn and Staten Island and is represented by Republican U.S. Rep Nicole Malliotakis, unfairly marginalizes Black and Latino voters.<\/p>\n

A law firm is challenging New York\u2019s congressional map that includes parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island, the first step in a process that could allow the state\u2019s lawmakers to draw new lines in a national mid-decade redistricting arms race, according to the Gothamist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Marc Elias Group<\/a> filed a lawsuit Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that Black and Latino voters on Staten Island are unfairly marginalized by the current map. Attorney Marc Elias has brought cases for Democrats across the country on election and redistricting cases, the news site said.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs say the 11th District, which includes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights and is represented by U.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican, should be redrawn to include parts of Lower Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Malliotakis categorized the lawsuit as “frivolous.”<\/p>\n

“Here we go again\u2026another frivolous lawsuit trying to upend our congressional district in an attempt to tilt the scale to give Democrats an advantage in next year\u2019s election,” she said on X.<\/a> “To claim our independently drawn map somehow disenfranchised Hispanics and other minorities when I\u2019m the first Hispanic & minority member elected to represent this district is a new low! We defeated them twice before and we\u2019ll do it again.”<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative Dan Goldman, who represents lower Manhattan, said if Staten Island is drawn into his district, he will be ready to “take the fight for democracy and a Democratic House majority to Nicole Malliotakis\u2019 doorstep.”<\/p>\n

“Nothing can stand in the way of us defeating Donald Trump and his spineless lackeys in Congress,” Goldman said in a statement. “Flipping the House isn\u2019t optional \u2013 our future depends on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs in the case are four voters \u2014 a Black man, a white woman, a Latino man and a Latino woman \u2014 who live in Staten Island and Manhattan, Gothamist reported. The defendants in the lawsuit are Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins as well as the state Board of Elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lawsuit filed by a Democratic law firm says New York’s 11th congressional district, which covers parts of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,13584,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-19837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-redistrictingnicole-malliotakis","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837","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=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}