Paul Gigot hosts a 'Journal Editorial Report' panel discussion on the redistricting battles across the nation after Indiana Republicans rejected a Trump-backed map and Rep. Jasmine Crockett's, D-Texas., Senate campaign announcement.

New York City has only one Republican member of Congress, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island, the city's only red borough, and parts of South Brooklyn that are purple. An absurd and obviously partisan judicial ruling on Wednesday has put the seat at risk.

This isn’t just political hardball, it's a fastball to the face. But too many Republicans are too "principled," or too scared, to retaliate.

State Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman, who was not only appointed by far-left Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, but once served as her chief of staff, found that the district map, which was signed into law in 2024 by Hochul herself, is suddenly unconstitutional.

Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.  (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Incredibly, Hochul agrees that she and the New York Democrats themselves signed into law an unconstitutional district just over a year ago, and her state government has refused to defend its own map in court.

TRUMP FORCES INDIANA GOP INTO REDISTRICTING REVERSAL IN RACE TO DRAW NEW MAGA MAP

The judge said there was strong evidence of a "racially polarized voting........

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