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     The Supreme Court issued an order effectively barring the redrawing of the boundary lines of the only congressional district in New York City currently held by a Republican for the 2026 midterm .  As they should.

     The decision is a victory for the incumbent seeking re-election this November, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the Staten Island Republican who had asked the Supreme Court to hear her bid to block new lines for that contest.

     The Supreme Court order is a potentially significant one for Republicans, who are trying to retain their narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress. The order comes on the heels of efforts in Texas, California, and elsewhere to redraw maps for congressional districts before the midterm elections.  The GOP has just a 218-214 majority in the House of Representatives.

     Democrats likely would have had a better chance to defeat Malliotakis in her 11th Congressional District if more Black and Latino voters were added to it, as was expected after a ruling in January by a New York state court judge that directed the district’s lines to be redrawn.

     Neither the exact numerical breakdown of which Supreme Court justices voted in favor of Monday’s order, nor the rationale for the decision were disclosed. But the court’s three liberal members all dissented from the order.  Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the court’s six-member conservative supermajority, in a concurring opinion in the ruling called a New York state judge’s order that Malliotakis’ district be redrawn for the 2026 election one that “blatantly discriminates on the basis of race.”  

  “The New York Supreme Court (that State’s trial-level court) ordered the New York Independent Redistricting Commission to draw a new congressional district for the express purpose of ensuring that ‘minority voters’ are able to elect the candidate of their choice,” Alito wrote.  That is unadorned racial discrimination, an inherently ‘odious’ activity that violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause except in the ‘most extraordinary case,’ ” he said.