A moment of clarity for GOP House members

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Those districts became even more likely to flip last week in New York when an appeals court sided with Democrats and ordered the state’s congressional map to be redrawn.

The ruling, which Republicans said will be appealed, would give Democrats a chance to tilt the state’s districts in their favor and help recapture four New York congressional districts lost in 2022 after a court found the Democratic-controlled Leg- islature had violated state law in gerrymandering the maps.

The court, at the time, stripped the Legislature of its mapmaking authority, vesting it in the neutral expert who drew up a map less friendly to Democrats.

We would hope D’Esposito, Garbadino and other New York House Republicans will stand up against the extremists in their caucus in the House’s upcoming negotiations with the Senate.

Call it another test of who they really are.