Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
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Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis failed to convince a New York appeals court to stop her seat from being redrawn, with the appellate judges unanimously giving a green light for the redistricting process to continue, Mike Vilensky reports.
- The ruling denied Malliotakis’ request to pause a lower court order finding her seat unconstitutional.
- The court instead compelled New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission to get to work on redrawing the district lines, in a win for Democrats seeking to reshape the city’s only GOP-held district ahead of the midterms. It’s unclear how the lines would be redrawn, but the changes are expected ...