Posted on 10/27/2025 12:53:46 PM PDT by DFG
A lawsuit filed in New York City on Monday alleges Black and Latino voters are being unconstitutionally diluted in the city’s only congressional district represented by a Republican.
The Monday suit was filed by Elias Law Group, a Washington D.C. based firm chaired by well-known Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias, and singled out New York’s 11th district which has been represented by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Latina, since 2021, according to the New York Times (NYT). The action comes after Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and California — pending a vote — have already redrawn their House maps ahead of the 2026 midterms — with several other states such as Virginia and Indiana poised to follow.
The suit argues the district’s current lines “confine Staten Island’s growing Black and Latino communities in a district where they are routinely and systematically unable to influence decisions.” The borough has seen the combined Black and Latino population rise from 11% to 30% over the last 40 years, NYT reported.
Malliotakis is the daughter of a Cuban immigrant and grew up speaking Spanish at home. Her solidly Republican district — which President Donald Trump won by over 24 points in 2024 — includes the entirety of Staten Island and several neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn.
“This is a frivolous lawsuit trying to upend our congressional district which was drawn by a court-appointed special master and later enacted into state law by the state’s independent redistricting commission, the Democrat-controlled state legislature and Democrat governor,” the congresswoman told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “This is a terrible abuse of the legal process by an ultra-partisan Washington law firm that does the bidding of the national Democrat Party in an attempt to tilt the scale to give their party an advantage in next year’s election.”
New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox responded to Monday’s lawsuit, calling it a “frivolous attempt” to evade the state’s constitution and Court of Appeals.
“Now, Democrats attempt another gerrymander of NY-11 by linking Staten Island to Manhattan. The current Staten Island/Brooklyn district is compact, respects communities of interest, and has been approved by both the courts and the State Legislature,” Cox said in a statement. “This latest lawsuit, brought by the same lawyers who previously defended the unconstitutional state gerrymander in 2022, is seeking a blatant racial gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.”
“Everyone should see this effort for what it is: a naked attempt to disenfranchise voters in NY-11 and elect a Democrat to this Congressional District contrary to the will of voters.”
The legal action comes on the heels of President Donald Trump endorsing Malliotakis for reelection in a Saturday post to Truth Social.
Thank you President Trump for this early endorsement of my re-election posted over the weekend. Together we delivered tax relief for middle-class families and senior citizens, increased the SALT deduction, secured our borders & deported the criminals who wreaked havoc in NYC. I… pic.twitter.com/Xugjy7p3pJ
— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) October 27, 2025
Elias has long taken a strategy of filing lawsuits against states with maps he deems to be too friendly to the GOP, telling MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that GOP-controlled states that approve new district lines will face legal action.
“By the way, I can promise [Indiana] they’re going to get sued. Then Florida will pass a new map, and they are definitely gonna get sued, and they’re gonna lose, and Missouri’s gonna pass a new map, and they’re gonna get sued, and they may lose,” Elias had told Wallace in late August.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told MSNBC in August she would do whatever she could to “fight fire with fire” and gerrymander New York in response to the new lines in Texas.
“If we don’t fight for democracy we’re doomed to lose it,” Hochul said. “I’m going to do whatever I can to literally change the constitution of New York state to allow us to have an election with the lines we draw. If this is how they’re going to play the game, we’re going to fight fire with fire.”
Elias Law Group did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
“Latinos” or “hispanics” should be accorded absolutely no special status in American law. It’s an actual violation of Equal Protection.
Just because you came from a foreign country doesn’t make you deserving of special privileges, like your own Congressional districts.
Does that mean all those California and other states where amounts in the 40-50% vote range led to ZERO or 1 or 2 representatives seated, can be targets for the GOP saying their constituents are under-represented? Plus the counting of deliberate illegals in the state as residents.
That filthy Newsom says he’s opposing election stealing and vote rigging by his gerrymandering. His people did that routinely to Republican voters all these years.
Lucky for him the GOP voters are docile, sweet, easygoing types who just complain to each other and then follow the law. Really lucky.
Elias Law Group..............Marc Elias?..............
was filed by Elias Law Group, a Washington D.C. based firm chaired by well-known Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias,
And they have standing in NY because...?
Democrats are a bunch of filthy crooks, using bizarre theories to replace Republicans with Democrats. They’re also a bunch of filthy liars.
French albino-Americans, a true victimized minority, should also have a district cut out for their voting preferences
Bkmk
Well I agree!
And to add to the absurdity, I recently compiled a list of “minority groups” who need to be identified and given special consideration for districting, education, jobs, etc:
Yorkish-American (me)
Welsh-American
Pictish-American
Scottish-American
Dal Riata-American
Ulster-American (me again)
Angle-American (ditto)
Cornish-American
Briton-American (to include the lovely ladies of Brittany)
Norman-American
Parisi-American
Gallic-American (albino or not)
Flemish-Americans
Walloon-Americans
Alsatian-American
Swiss-American
Algauer-American (me too!)
Rhine-Westfalian-American (yet again!)
Austrian-American (the only fun Germans)
Swabian-American (Al Einstein was one)
Bohemian-American
Moravian-American
Saxon-American (lot of us, somewhat controversial you know)
Frisian-American
Nederlander-American
Hollander-American
Amish-American
Mennonite-American
Czech-American
Slovak-American
Magyar-American
Polish-American
Serbian-American
Montengran-American
Greek-American
Macedonian-American
Croatian-American
Slovenian-American (very popular due to their looks, especially from Gotschee)
Transylvanian-Americans (noble people standing against the Ottomans, always discriminated against for um, rather severe tactics)
Norwegian-Americans (always victimized by their terminally good looks)
Swedish-Americans (ditto)
Danish-Americans (ditto)
Polish-Americans
Prussian-Americans
Welll....this could be a little long....so we’ll just wrap up by pointing out that all of these people (and a lot of others unmentioned) have been through issues of “acceptance” and “hardship” at some point, and gosh darn, they never got any relief from the Great and Wondrous Courts! Justice Now!!
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