A Supreme Court win for a fair map: The Staten Island congressional district stays in place
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court thankfully put a stop to the nonsense pushed by partisan Democrats to immediately redraw the sole New York City congressional district held by a Republican, Nicole Malliotakis, covering Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Justice Sam Alito explained why the nation’s highest court stepped in, despite objections from three of his colleagues that they needed to wait for all state court action to be first exhausted.
The outcome would have been the same either way and the tight timetable (with petitioning for candidates having started on Feb. 24) is due entirely to the lateness that Democrats choose to initiate their legal challenge.
We get it that Democrats want to win the most seats and that Republicans also want to win the most seats. But we want the........
