PA Supreme Court approves new congressional district map

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Pa. Supreme Court court picks national Dems’ map as new congressional plan

By: Stephen Caruso - February 23, 2022 11:41 am


Pennsylvania’s highest court has picked a map submitted by voters backed by a national group aligned with Democrats to be the commonwealth’s next congressional map.

In a 5-page order, the state Supreme Court ordered 4-3 that the map, known as the Carter plan, be adopted as soon as possible. An opinion was not immediately available. Four of the courts five liberal justices signed onto the order, while the other, Justice Debra Todd, joined two justices elected as Republicans in dissent.

The map was filed with the court by plaintiffs linked to the National Redistricting Action Fund, a dark money affiliate of National Democratic Redistricting Committee, while the case was argued by Democratic attorney Marc Elias.

https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/pennsylvania-court-picks-national-dems-map-as-new-congressional-plan/

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🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court ADOPTS new congressional map. Court selects maps put forward by our clients (Carter) as new statewide map!

Proud of the work @EliasLawGroup and @RedistrictFdn did to ensure fair maps in Pennsylvania.
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11:29 AM · Feb 23, 2022

If Marc Elias is good with it so am I (and his group was the legal team behind the map that was chosen)!

And as a note to the slur that the Penn Capitol-Star did - the NDRC is Eric Holder's organization that has been dedicated to getting fair districts and not the RW loon gerrymandered crap. We have suffered here in PA for the past 10 years due to their last nonsense. I am hoping that when it comes to the state legislative districts, we can get those fixed too.

This was a bit tricky because PA lost a seat so a decision had to be made as to where. The population loss happened on the western side of the state and a gain in the east. And thankfully, the current map that the state Supreme Court implemented in 2018 already had a good base to start from and really, only needed some tweaking.

The initial analysis basically indicates that with this new map, you have 8 (D) seats + 8 (R) seats + 1 seat that is a mix that would be up for grabs. We are currently 9 (D) - 9 (R) after the 2018 map implementation that finally got rid of the gerrymandered atrocity that had been enacted by the loons after the last census in 2011, and that had 13 (R) - 5 (D) seats.