{"id":87773,"date":"2026-01-02T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87773\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:25:08","slug":"voter-dilution-lawsuit-aiming-to-boost-black-latino-representation-on-staten-island-is-set-to-be-heard-law-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87773\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter-Dilution Lawsuit, Aiming to Boost Black, Latino Representation on Staten Island, Is Set to Be Heard| Law.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election and Political Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 text-sm text-neutral-80\">Republican advocates want the Manhattan trial court judge to recuse himself, due to prior ties to Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat. The lawsuit, based on the New York State Voting Rights Act, asks to compel Albany lawmakers to recreate Congressional District 11 into a \u201cminority-influence\u201d district that would pair Republican-leaning Staten Island with lower Manhattan, while carving out parts of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>4 minute readJanuary 02, 2026 at 05:51 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election and Political Law Republican advocates want the Manhattan trial court judge to recuse himself, due to prior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-87773","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\/87773","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=87773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}