By Associated Press
13小时前
发布于2026年1月21日，美国东部时间下午6:08
2025年6月，来自纽约的共和党众议员妮可·马利奥塔基斯（Nicole Malliotakis）在美国国会大厦。
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纽约州奥尔巴尼，美联社电——
周三，一名法官推翻了纽约市唯一一个由共和党人代表的国会选区的边界划分，下令该州重新绘制该选区地图，理由是当前的选区构成违宪地削弱了黑人和西班牙裔居民的投票权。
共和党人预计将对这一裁决提出上诉，因为一场新的全国性选区操纵（gerrymandering）斗争已经展开，两党都在争夺美国众议院控制权的斗争中寻求优势。
自唐纳德·特朗普总统开始推动共和党制定新的国会选区划分线，以帮助其政党在今年中期选举中保住狭窄的众议院多数席位以来，约三分之一的州已考虑重新划分其众议院选区。民主党则采取了反击措施，启动了自己的重新划分选区工作，尽管他们有时会受到自己通过的旨在防止党派操纵选区的法律的阻碍。
在纽约州，法官杰弗里·珀尔曼（Jeffrey Pearlman）为民主党人赢得了早期胜利，裁定共和党众议员妮可·马利奥塔基斯在布鲁克林南部和史泰登岛的选区应重新调整。
这起诉讼由一家与民主党结盟的选举法律事务所提起，该事务所认为当前的选区边界划分没有考虑到史泰登岛黑人和拉丁裔居民的增长，从而削弱了他们的投票权。
共和党人抨击这起诉讼是为了巧妙操纵选区以帮助民主党，并消除该州仅存的少数几个共和党人占优的选区之一。
马利奥塔基斯在一份声明中表示：“这是华盛顿民主党人企图从民众手中窃取这个国会席位的无理举动，我们坚信最终我们会胜诉。”
民主党州长凯西·霍楚尔（Kathy Hochul）曾誓言要介入全国性的选区重划斗争，但在选举前几乎没有立法途径可以实质性地改变该州的国会选区划分。
该州目前的选区地图由州议会的民主党人绘制，并由州长签署成为法律，旨在在2024年选举前帮助其政党在几个关键选区获得优势。根据该地图，民主党在纽约获得了几个席位，尽管共和党最终赢得了众议院多数席位。
Judge orders redrawing of a NYC congressional district, potentially costing Republicans a key seat
By Associated Press
13 hr ago
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2026, 6:08 PM ET
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, at the US Capitol in June 2025.
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Albany, New York AP—
A judge on Wednesday threw out the boundaries of the only congressional seat in New York City represented by a Republican, ordering the state to redraw the district on the grounds that its current composition unconstitutionally diluted the votes of Black and Hispanic residents.
Republicans are expected to appeal the decision, as a new front opens in a national gerrymandering battle that has both political parties jockeying for advantage in the fight over control of the US House.
About a third of states have considered redrawing their House districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for Republicans to craft new congressional lines to help his party hold onto its narrow House majority in this year’s midterms. Democrats countered by launching their own redistricting efforts, though they have sometimes been hampered by laws they passed intended to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
In New York, Judge Jeffrey Pearlman handed Democrats an early win in the fight, ruling that a district held by Republican US Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in southern Brooklyn and Staten Island should be reconfigured.
The case, filed by an election law firm aligned with the Democratic Party, argued the current lines of the district were drawn without accounting for a rise in Staten Island’s Black and Latino residents, thereby diluting their voting power.
Republicans had bashed the lawsuit as a clear effort to game the district to help Democrats and eliminate one of the few remaining GOP districts in the state.
In a statement, Malliotakis said, “This is a frivolous attempt by Washington Democrats to steal this congressional seat from the people and we are very confident that we will prevail at the end of the day.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, had vowed to wade into the national redistricting fight but had few legislative avenues to substantially change the state’s congressional lines before the election.
The state’s current map was drawn by Democrats in the state Legislature and signed into law by the governor, designed to give their party a boost in a few battleground districts ahead of the 2024 elections. Democrats picked up a few seats in New York under that map, though Republicans eventually won a House majority.
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