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NY Dems went too far in racial redistricting this time — and the left’s bigotry is clear

Yay! The Supreme Court not only stopped Democrats’ drive to steal Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ House seat this November, it did so in expectation that it will rule against this rancidly racist move when it actually hears arguments in the case.

The high court issued a stay of a state court’s order to redraw the district’s line because, in Justice Samuel Alito’s words, “this Court would likely strike down” the new map “if the cases reached us in time.”

So much for the effort, lead by national Dem dirty-tricks operative Marc Elias and supported by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state party, to wipe out New York City’s only GOP-leaning House district in New York City on the grounds that electing Republicans disenfranchises the 30% of the population that is black and Latino.

Seriously, that’s the argument: “Black and Latino Staten Islanders have less opportunity,” per the lawsuit, “than other members of the electorate to elect a representative of their choice and influence elections” simply because the district rarely elects Democrats — and never mind that is now is electing a Latino, since Malliotakis is half-Cuban.

The 11th Congressional District, which went for President Donald Trump by 24 points in 2024, has long united Staten Island with the closest parts of south Brooklyn; as part of their national gerrymandering effort, Dems wanted the district to lose its Brooklyn section and instead include a big chunk of lower Manhattan

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An area that is even more white than south Brooklyn, but made up of whites who vote the “right” way.

In any case, minority Staten Islanders have the same opportunity to influence elections as Americans anywhere else, because they can go to the polls and vote for the candidate of their choice.

More, politics in New York is not defined entirely by race, despite the left’s bigotry here: A not insubstantial number of black and Latino voters in the city vote Republican, while an overwhelming number of white voters vote Democrat.

Look at the 10th CD, covering Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and lower Manhattan: It’s about half white, repped by uber-liberal Democrat Dan Goldman, and went for Kamala Harris over Trump by 60 points.The 12th CD, comprising Manhattan from Union Square to Yorkville, is 65% white, is repped by lefty icon Jerry Nadler, and went for Kamala by 64 points.

So it’s not like Republicans in NYC are the party of white people, at all.

Just one House district of 13 across the city votes Republican (sometimes!), yet near a third of Gotham voted for Trump over Harris: Just whose votes are being suppressed here?

We’re not asking the Supremes to consider that question, only cheering their slapdown of this lawsuit’s bizarre racial claims — and anticipating how this case suggests they’ll overturn nearly all racial requirements for electoral maps.

Justice Samuel Alito went to the trouble of penning a separate opinion damning the New York court for “unadorned racial discrimination” contrary to the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause — a clear echo of the arguments in Louisiana v Callais that could cost Democrats roughly half their House seats across the South.

If Dems’ overreach on Staten Island prompts the high court to order emergency redistricting in those states, Elias, Hochul and the other Democrats behind that outrage can feast on crow.

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