PA Supreme Court approves new congressional district map

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6. The state legislative districts were a lot more fairly drawn by the

Legislative Redistricting Committee. The LRC undid a good bit of the extreme gerrymandering the Rs did in 2010 and prior. For example, my HD went from meadering around the Dem areas to now being concentrated in the NE portion of Beaver County. It's still an R district, but not as much as before. Whoever represents it will now have to consider the needs of a much more demographically and economically diverse community all with different and sometimes conflicting needs. The analyses I read concluded Dems might pick up 10 seats or so and perhaps even re-take the state House. If that happened, the House would be almost 50-50 either way.

The new maps passed 4-1 with both Ds, Nordenberg and Senate Majority Leader Ward voting to approve. Ward liked the Senate map and said her duty was to that body. Benninghoff is mad about the House despite it still favoring Rs. I'm sure will object, or has already, but not sure anything will come of it.