NDRC Statement on the Supreme Court Granting Stay in New York Redistricting Case

Washington, D.C. — Today, Marina Jenkins, Executive Director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court granting an emergency stay application in Malliotakis v. Williams, a case pertaining to New York’s congressional map: 

“The Supreme Court’s decision to intervene in an active state court proceeding is an extraordinary and unprecedented breach of the principles that have long governed our federal system. By short-circuiting New York’s judicial process before it has even run its course, the Court has placed a thumb on the scale in favor of the partisan interest of the Republican Party. The people of New York deserve to have the ability to seek justice in their state court free from meddling by activist justices on the Supreme Court.”

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