In 2010, the Daily Show had a segment on how there were Supreme Court Justices from four of the five boroughs of New York City: Justice Scalia was from Queens, Justice Ginsburg was from Brooklyn, Justice Sotomayor was from the Bronx, and Justice Kagan was from Manhattan. But as Jon Stewart pointed out, there was no Justice from my home borough of Staten Island. I quipped at the time I was available, but I suppose I was delusional even back then.
If SCOTUS won't go to Staten Island, then Staten Island should go to SCOTUS. And so it has come to pass. I have blogged twice about a case that would splice the boundaries of Staten Island's congressional district. Since then, the New York Appellate Division has declined to impose a stay, and the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York) found it lacked jurisdiction. Nicole Maliotakis, the Representative from New York has filed an emergency petition in the Supreme Court.
Here is the summary of the argument:
