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Emergency application

Latino voting rights

Nicole Malliotakis v. Michael Williams

Granted
No. 25A914Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice SotomayorFrom Court of Appeals of New York

What did the Court do?

The Court granted the request on March 2, 2026: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would have ruled the other way.

Filed Ruled 18 days after filing

What's being asked

Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and several individual voters ask the Court to pause a New York trial-court order. Justice Alito's opinion describes the order as directing New York's Independent Redistricting Commission to draw a new congressional district. The opinion says the stated aim was to let minority voters elect their preferred candidate.

What the Court did

The Court paused the January 21 New York trial-court order (granted a stay, a temporary pause). The pause remains while the New York state appeal and any timely petition for Supreme Court review are pending. No full vote tally was published; Justice Alito concurred (agreed with the result for different reasons), while Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented (disagreed).

  • Concurred in a separate opinion
  • Dissented
  • Wrote separately
  • Vote not published
Concurring · 1agreed with the result, wrote separately
  1. Alito
Dissenting · 3recorded against the Court's order
  1. Sotomayorwrote a dissent
  2. Kaganjoined Sotomayor's writing
  3. Jacksonjoined Sotomayor's writing
Vote not published · 5the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Thomas
  3. Gorsuch
  4. Kavanaugh
  5. Barrett
The order records the positions of 4 of 9 justices. The Court usually does not say how each justice voted on an emergency application, so the rest are shown as not published.
Half of 82 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response came 10 to 26 days after filing, and the median was 17 days; this one was ruled on 18 days after filing.

What it means

This temporary pause does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The state appeal continues in New York's Appellate Division. No related Supreme Court case to decide the main question is listed, and the application has no argument date.

Separate writings

  • Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson and Justice Kagan, dissenting

    Read (PDF)

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A914. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 8, 2026