NY Dems went too far in racializing redistricting – Latest News
Yay! The Supreme Court not solely stopped Democrats’ drive to steal Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ House seat this November, it did so in expectation that it’s going to rule towards this rancidly racist transfer when it truly hears arguments in the case.
The high court docket issued a keep of a state court docket’s order to redraw the district’s line as a result of, in Justice Samuel Alito’s phrases, “this Court would likely strike down” the new map “if the cases reached us in time.”
So a lot for the trouble, lead by national Dem dirty-tricks operative Marc Elias and supported by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state celebration, to wipe out New York City’s solely GOP-leaning House district in New York City on the grounds that electing Republicans disenfranchises the 30% of the population that’s 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” just because the district hardly ever elects Democrats — and by no means thoughts that’s now’s electing a Latino, since Malliotakis is half-Cuban.
The eleventh Congressional District, which went for President Donald Trump by 24 factors in 2024, has long united Staten Island with the closest elements of south Brooklyn; as half of their national gerrymandering effort, Dems needed the district to lose its Brooklyn part and as a substitute embody a large chunk of decrease Manhattan
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An space that’s even more white than south Brooklyn, however made up of whites who vote the “right” approach.
In any case, minority Staten Islanders have the identical alternative to affect elections as Americans anyplace else, as a result of they will go to the polls and vote for the candidate of their alternative.
More, politics in New York isn’t outlined completely by race, regardless of the left’s bigotry right here: A not insubstantial quantity of black and Latino voters in the town vote Republican, whereas an overwhelming quantity of white voters vote Democrat.
Look on the tenth CD, masking Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and decrease Manhattan: It’s about half white, repped by uber-liberal Democrat Dan Goldman, and went for Kamala Harris over Trump by 60 factors.The twelfth CD, comprising Manhattan from Union Square to Yorkville, is 65% white, is repped by lefty icon Jerry Nadler, and went for Kamala by 64 factors.
So it’s not like Republicans in NYC are the celebration of white people, in any respect.
Just one House district of 13 throughout the town votes Republican (generally!), but close to a third of Gotham voted for Trump over Harris: Just whose votes are being suppressed right here?
We’re not asking the Supremes to think about that query, solely cheering their slapdown of this lawsuit’s weird racial claims — and anticipating how this case suggests they’ll overturn practically all racial necessities for electoral maps.
Justice Samuel Alito went to the difficulty of penning a separate opinion damning the New York court docket for “unadorned racial discrimination” opposite to the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause — a clear echo of the arguments in Louisiana v Callais that would value Democrats roughly half their House seats throughout the South.
If Dems’ overreach on Staten Island prompts the high court docket to order emergency redistricting in these states, Elias, Hochul and the opposite Democrats behind that outrage can feast on crow.
