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14小时前
发布于 2026年1月21日，美国东部时间下午6:08
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美国国会众议院议员妮可·马利奥塔基斯（共和党，纽约州），2025年6月在美国国会大厦。
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奥尔巴尼，纽约州 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边界，下令该州重新划定选区，理由是当前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起上诉，因为全国范围内的选区操纵斗争已出现新战线，两党都在这场关乎美国众议院控制权的较量中争夺优势。
自唐纳德·特朗普总统开始推动共和党人制定新的国会选区划分方案以帮助其政党在今年中期选举中保住微弱的众议院多数席位以来，约三分之一的州已考虑重划其众议院选区。民主党则发起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）为民主党人赢得了这场斗争中的早期胜利，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需要重新配置。
这起诉讼由一家与民主党结盟的选举法律事务所提起，该事务所辩称，当前选区边界在划定过程中未考虑到史泰登岛黑人和拉丁裔居民人口的增长，从而稀释了他们的投票权。
共和党人抨击这起诉讼是民主党人试图通过操纵选区来帮助自己并消除该州为数不多的剩余共和党选区的明显举动。
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，我们非常有信心最终会胜诉。”
纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔（民主党）曾誓言要参与全国范围的重新划分选区斗争，但在选举前几乎没有立法途径来实质性改变该州的国会选区边界。
该州当前的选区划分图由州议会民主党人绘制，并由州长签署成为法律，旨在在2024年选举前为其政党在几个关键选区中获得优势。根据该选区划分图，民主党在纽约州获得了几个席位，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
14 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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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.