Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis blasted a Democrat-backed lawsuit that is seeking to redraw Staten Island’s congressional district to include Lower Manhattan — telling The Post it’s a partisan attempt to “silence” Big Apple conservatives.

The gerrymandering suit, filed by the DC-based Marc Elias Group in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, claims the current drawing of the NY-11 “dilutes black and Latino voting strength” by consistently electing Republicans and that the remedy is to redraw the district to include the Democrat stronghold of lower Manhattan.

“It’s a completely frivolous nonsensical lawsuit that has zero merit,” Malliotakis said in her first public comments about the lawsuit that could push her out of Congress, where she’s served since 2021.

“This is the Democrat’s l

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