This editorial, from today’s New York Post, exposes the naked fraudulence exercised by Democrats in New York City/State (and New York is not the only place where this occurs), in an attempt to steal one of the few congressional seats held by Republicans in New York City:
Democrats’ theft of Staten Island’s House seat is a fresh blow to NY’s economy
It looks like higher New York state courts won’t undo the outrageous decision by a partisan trial-court judge to order a last-minute redistricting designed to hand Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ seat to a Democrat this fall — signaling that the rule of law now goes completely out the window in the Empire State whenever Democrats want.
It’s hard to think of a worse signal to send to a business community already straining under obscene taxes and regulations, among other needlessly high costs.
Malliotakis (R-SI) has a good chance of being rescued by a US Supreme Court slapdown, since the court’s ruling invokes twisted racial “logic” of a kind the justices have recently frowned upon.
That is: The judge ordered a redraw of the district to favor a Democrat on the grounds that anything else disenfranchises black and Hispanic voters — though the new district won’t have any more minorities, but only more Dem-leaning whites.
More outrageous still, the existing district has elected a Latino congresswoman: Malliotakis is Cuban on her mom’s side.
How in hell does that violate the state Constitution’s prohibition on drawing districts that harm minority voting rights, as the judge ruled?
Plus: The district was passed into law by the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission, the Democrat-controlled state Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2024: Were they all conspiring to suppress minority voting rights?
The Democrats who run the Legislature have completely cowed the state’s courts into rubber-stamping the most outrageous injustices, as long as it serves the majority party’s interests.
And Hochul sits silent, because party loyalty trumps all for her, too.
You’d have to be crazy to open a new business in a state where rank politics trumps justice this way.
The best hope to limit the damage is for the Supremes to slap down this ruling ASAP, but the corruption of New York’s courts will still remain visible for all to see.
Lady Justice is no longer blind in the Empire State: She’s a slave of the Democratic Party.
The court system in New York? Pretty much like the court system in D.C. If it benefits Democrats/damages Republicans, the answer is yes. Period. End of story.
Will this obscene ruling be overturned? And, if so, will it happen in time for Rep. Malleotakis to run in the same district, thus to have more than a fingers-crossed chance of retaining the seat voters there have given her three times – by major landslides the last two times? I wonder.
And I also wonder whether any of the other major New York media show even a fraction of the outrage they should be showing about this travesty. Or is the fact that it could result in one more Democrat congressperson and one less Republican be so positive a development for them that any way it is done will be fine and dandy?
Let’s wait a day or two and see. But I don’t expect to be surprised.
