DAVID MARCUS: New York Dems pull dirty districting trick as 'aw shucks' Indiana GOP folds

New York City has lone 1 Republican subordinate of Congress, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island, the city's lone reddish borough, and parts of South Brooklyn that are purple. An absurd and evidently partisan judicial ruling connected Wednesday has enactment the spot astatine risk.

This isn’t conscionable governmental hardball, it's a fastball to the face. But excessively galore Republicans are excessively "principled," oregon excessively scared, to retaliate.

State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman, who was not lone appointed by far-left Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, but erstwhile served arsenic her main of staff, recovered that the territory map, which was signed into instrumentality successful 2024 by Hochul herself, is abruptly unconstitutional.

Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) successful New York, U.S., connected Wednesday, June 18, 2025.  (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Incredibly, Hochul agrees that she and the New York Democrats themselves signed into instrumentality an unconstitutional territory conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, and her authorities authorities has refused to support its ain representation successful court.

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The justice said determination was beardown grounds of a "racially polarized voting bloc," arsenic good arsenic "a past of favoritism that impacts existent time governmental information and representation," and "that radical appeals are inactive made successful governmental campaigns today."

Having lived from 2013 to 2023 successful the district, I tin archer you this statement is simply a container of nonsense, acceptable connected fire, and near connected the doorstep of sanity. It does not remotely correspond the world connected the ground, wherever determination are nary smoldering radical tensions.

The justice besides finds, ludicrously, that residential Staten Island has much successful communal with the skyscraper-strewn Financial District of Lower Manhattan than the Brooklyn of homes and churches it is virtually connected to by the Verrazano Bridge.

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In reality, deceitful Democrats privation to swap right-leaning White voters successful Bay Ridge with left-leaning White voters successful the ritzy FiDi.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks astatine a property conference, July 31, 2024, successful the Bronx borough of New York.   (Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)

This is arsenic blatant arsenic partisan gerrymandering gets, and successful corrupt New York state, that is saying a lot.

Democrats volition reason that they are conscionable responding to redistricting efforts by the GOP, but the Texas Republicans lone started engaging successful what the Democrats person done forever.

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That’s wherefore determination are nary GOP seats successful each of New England composed of states wherever 45% voted for Trump. Likewise, Illinois, New Mexico and others person astir nary GOP districts.

The effect by states similar Texas has prompted the Democrats to spot if they person near thing connected the array anywhere, hence this New York duplicity on with akin plans successful Virginia.

The occupation for Republican voters, who would emotion a just shake, is that states similar Indiana inactive won’t respond. As usual, Dems are agreed and playing fast-break basketball, portion the GOP is taking the "high road" and playing arsenic the Washington Generals.

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We spot this arsenic good with the bluish slips successful the Senate needed for judicial confirmations. Democrats maltreatment it and present Trump has filled lone 15 retired of implicit 90 US lawyer seats. He can’t get anyone confirmed if Democrats tin artifact it.

It’s the aforesaid with the filibuster and authorities shutdowns. They near plays smash rima and the GOP conscionable gets played.

Vice President JD Vance has been starring the complaint to stiffen the spine of the brushed GOP of yesteryear. He called retired Indiana authorities Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, and helium wasn’t subtle.

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"I’d similar to convey (Bray) for not adjacent trying to combat backmost against this bonzer Democrat maltreatment of power. Now the votes of Indiana Republicans volition substance acold little than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told you it would happen, and you did nothing," Vance wrote connected X pursuing Virginia's program to erase GOP seats.

Where is the prevarication successful this?

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What bash Indiana Republicans deliberation the "aw shucks, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" regular is going to achieve? That they tin clasp their heads up precocious for 2 years arsenic a Democrat-controlled House impeaches President Donald Trump 2 oregon 3 much times?

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From the precise archetypal clip quill met cartography to carve retired a Congressional territory successful the 1780s, the signifier has been fraught with politics. It ever volition be.

But conscionable due to the fact that Democrats spent caller decades arsenic the broadside abusing the strategy the astir doesn’t mean Republicans indispensable resign themselves to that stilted presumption quo.

If sanity prevails successful the Empire State, admittedly a large ask, past a national justice volition squash Pearlman’s partisan, and frankly absurd, ruling, keeping the territory intact.

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Whether Malliotakis’ territory survives arsenic is oregon not, and don’t number her retired either way, Republicans request to combat backmost with each guns blazing, not with 1 Hoosier manus tied down its back.

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