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New York GOP asks Supreme Court to intervene in redistricting fight

Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, filed an emergency appeal Thursday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a last-ditch effort to overturn a lower court ruling ordering the state redraw the lines of her district ahead of the midterm elections. The petition requests a stay of the lower court's order pending the outcome of the case.