Source: International Business Times
People vote in the mayoral primary election at the Park Slope Armory YMCA on June 24, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City A lawsuit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court alleges that the state's current congressional map unlawfully weakens the voting power of Black and Latino residents in the 11th Congressional District, which includes Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn. The filing claims the boundaries "confine Staten Island's growing Black and Latino communities in a district where they are routinely and systematically unable to influence elections," in violation of the state constitution. The case, brought by four New Yorkers and filed by the Elias Law Group, argues that demographic changes over the last four decades have increased the district's Black and Latino population from about 11% to roughly 30%.
