Overview
- The unsigned stay grants Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ request, keeping the Staten Island–southern Brooklyn boundaries in place for the 2026 cycle as state appeals proceed.
- Justice Samuel Alito concurred, calling the trial court’s directive “unadorned racial discrimination,” while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented over federal overreach.
- The court pointed to timing pressures with candidate petitions already underway, an April 6 filing deadline, and a June 23 primary.
- In January, state trial judge Jeffrey Pearlman found the current NY-11 map diluted Black and Latino voting power and ordered the Independent Redistricting Commission to produce a new district.
- A state appellate court previously declined to pause the redraw process, and the stay preserves New York City’s only GOP-held seat in a narrowly divided U.S. House.