Overview
- Granting emergency relief 6–3, the Court paused a New York trial judge’s order that found NY‑11 diluted Black and Latino voting power and directed a new map.
- Justice Samuel Alito, concurring, called the state‑court remedy “unadorned racial discrimination,” while Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented that the move oversteps into ongoing state litigation.
- The stay preserves Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ Staten Island–southern Brooklyn district for this cycle as candidate qualifying is underway and the April 6 filing deadline approaches.
- Republicans, including Malliotakis and state election officials, argued the redraw would be a racial gerrymander and disrupt elections, while plaintiffs backed by Marc Elias urged the justices to let state courts resolve a state‑law remedy.
- The order is temporary pending state appeals and any further Supreme Court review, and it fits a broader pattern in which the justices have recently allowed contested maps in Texas and California to be used this year.