Redistricting battles in Texas and California grabbed national attention for months — but all the while, an attempt to re-gerrymander New York’s congressional map has been quietly underway in a Manhattan courtroom.

On Wednesday, acting State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman invalidated New York’s 11th Congressional District and ordered new lines drawn in the next two weeks, giving the case’s Democratic plaintiffs exactly what they want.

Contrary to the plaintiffs’ arguments, this isn’t about protecting minority voting rights.

It’s about finding any pretext to flip the last Republican-held House seat in New York City.

And it’s all being orchestrated by Marc Elias, the Democratic “superlawyer” whose firm seeks to win in the courtroom what his party can’t win at the ballot box.

The district covers all of Staten Island and the Brooklyn neighborhoods directly across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge: Fort Hamilton, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and part of Bay Ridge.  

It’s the same basic map that’s existed for five decades, yet Elias’ lawsuit claims this district improperly dilutes black and Latino voting power.

His argument is galling for many reasons, including that the current map was created by Elias’ own Democratic allies in........

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