Andrew: All right, so you reported this week about voters from Manhattan and Staten Island filing a lawsuit Monday that could have big implications for races for Congress. They are challenging district boundaries. Bring us up to speed here.
Jimmy: So the voters, some of whom are Black and Hispanic, they say that they’re marginalized by the current district lines. So Staten Island is right now joined with Southern Brooklyn, and it’s kind of thought of as a Republican district. Nicole Malliotakis represents it, and these voters argue that because generally white communities are kind of united together in this district, they are disenfranchised. So they’re suing under the state’s Voting Rights Act to say that the lines should be drawn in a way where people who are not white have more of a voice in their pick for Congress. So the significance of this is actually not about the merits of that dispute. It’s that if this lawsuit succeeds, it would have big implications, because New York could end up drawing new Congressional maps in the next few years, and that could, in turn, help one political party, namely the Democrats who control all the levers of state government.
Andrew: And just remind us why we’re talking about redistricting now. It’s something that’s done every 10 years. New York just went through this process…