New York’s congressional map is facing another legal challenge.

On Monday, a group of Staten Island voters filed a lawsuit alleging that the 11th Congressional District, which contains the entire borough and parts of Brooklyn, dilutes the voting power of Black and Latino voters in violation of the state constitution.

The filing alleges that the district in its current form doesn’t meaningfully account for the decadeslong growth of Staten Island’s Black and Latino populations and the decline of the borough’s white population.

“CD-11’s antiquated boundaries instead confine Staten Island’s growing Black and Latino communities in a district where they are routinely and systematically unable to influence elections for their representative of choice, despite the existence of strong racially

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