New York City has just one Republican congresswoman, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island, the city’s only red borough, and parts of southern Brooklyn that are purple. An absurd and clearly partisan court decision on Wednesday has put the seat in jeopardy.
This isn’t just political hardball, it’s a fastball to the face. But too many Republicans are too “principled” or too afraid to retaliate.
State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman, who was not only appointed by far-left Democrat Kathy Hochul but once served as her chief of staff, found that the district map, which was signed into law by Hochul himself in 2024, is suddenly unconstitutional.
Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Incredibly, Hochul agrees that she and New York Democrats themselves signed an unconstitutional district into law just over a year ago, and that her state government has refused to defend its own map in court.
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The judge said there is strong evidence of a “racially polarized voting bloc,” as well as “a history of discrimination that impacts current political participation and representation,” and “that racist appeals continue to be made in political campaigns today.”
Having lived in the neighborhood from 2013 to 2023, I can tell you that this argument is a bag of nonsense, torched and left on the doorstep of common sense. It does not even remotely represent the reality on the ground, where there are no smoldering racial tensions.
The judge also finds it ridiculous that the Staten Island residential area has more in common with the skyscraper-studded financial district of Lower Manhattan than with the Brooklyn of houses and churches to which it is literally connected by the Verrazano Bridge.
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In reality, deceitful Democrats want to trade right-leaning white voters in Bay Ridge with left-leaning white voters in upscale FiDi.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference on July 31, 2024 in the Bronx borough of New York. (Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)
This is as blatant as partisan gerrymandering can be, and in corrupt New York State, that’s saying a lot.
Democrats will argue that they are merely responding to the Republican Party’s redistricting efforts, but Texas Republicans have only begun to engage in what Democrats have always done.
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That’s why there are no Republican seats in all of New England, consisting of states where 45% voted for Trump. Likewise, Illinois, New Mexico and others have almost no GOP districts.
The response from states like Texas has prompted Democrats to look at whether they left anything on the table, hence this duplicity in New York and similar plans in Virginia.
The problem for Republican voters, who want a fair shake, is that states like Indiana still don’t want to respond. As usual, the Democrats are united and playing fast-break basketball, while the Republican party takes the high road and plays like the Washington Generals.
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We also see this with the blue slips in the Senate required for judicial confirmations. The Democrats are abusing it and now Trump has filled only 15 of the more than 90 US seats for lawyers. He can’t get anyone confirmed if the Democrats can block it.
The same goes for the filibuster and the government shutdown. They left plays and the GOP is just getting played.
Vice President J.D. Vance has led the charge to solidify the backbone of the soft Republican Party of yesteryear. He called out Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, and he wasn’t subtle.
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“I want to thank (Bray) for not even trying to fight back against this extraordinary abuse of power by the Democrats. Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter far less than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told you this would happen, and you have done nothing,” Vance wrote on X, in response to Virginia’s plan to eliminate Republican seats.
Where’s the lie in this?
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What do Indiana Republicans think the ‘aw shucks, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington’ routine? That they can hold their heads high for two years while a Democratic-controlled House impeaches President Donald Trump two or three more times?
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From the very first time Quill and cartography drew up a congressional district in the 1780s, the practice was fraught with politics. That will always be the case.
But the fact that Democrats have been the party that has abused the system the most in recent decades does not mean that Republicans should resign themselves to that lofty status quo.
If common sense prevails in the Empire State, which is admittedly a big ask, a federal judge will overturn Pearlman’s partisan and frankly absurd ruling, leaving the district intact.
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Whether Malliotakis’ district survives or is not left out, Republicans must fight back with all their weapons, not with one Hoosier hand tied behind their back.
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