Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman should have rejected a ludicrous lawsuit claiming the city’s Staten Island congressional district, held by Republican Nicole Malliotakis, is discriminatory against minority voters and needs to be redrawn.

Instead Pearlman blindly accepted the bill of goods offered by the Democrats who concocted this specious case and ordered the 10-member bipartisan state Independent Redistricting Commission to produce a new map by two weeks from today, Feb. 6. Will some higher court, either the Manhattan Appellate Division or the state Court of Appeals, New York’s highest bench, please stop this nonsense? Otherwise, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to get involved.

The lines of the Malliotakis district are fair and were fairly drawn by an unbiased nonpartisan expert from Carnegie Mellon, Prof. Jonathan Cervas. They were also........

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