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Related: About this forumGerrymandering is still OK in PA, ruling by Philadelphia circuit court:*
http://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/13166973-74/judges-rule-pennsylvania-can-retain-congressional-maphs.
Pennsylvania can keep its congressional map, a judicial panel in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday, rejecting an argument from a group of Democratic voters who contended it should be thrown out because the state lawmakers who created the map in 2011 gerrymandered it to help Republicans.
The court cast aside the argument that districts should not consider politics, saying partisanship is part of the system.
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An appeal in the case would go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alice Ballard, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said she and her clients were still processing the ruling and the one from North Carolina and considering their options.
A separate challenge to Pennsylvania's congressional map is pending before the state Supreme Court, which has scheduled oral arguments on the topic for next week in Harrisburg. Legislative Republican leaders on Wednesday filed documents in that case, arguing the Democratic voters who sued are attempting to achieve through the courthouse what they could not in the voting booths."
The court cast aside the argument that districts should not consider politics, saying partisanship is part of the system.
>snip<
An appeal in the case would go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alice Ballard, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said she and her clients were still processing the ruling and the one from North Carolina and considering their options.
A separate challenge to Pennsylvania's congressional map is pending before the state Supreme Court, which has scheduled oral arguments on the topic for next week in Harrisburg. Legislative Republican leaders on Wednesday filed documents in that case, arguing the Democratic voters who sued are attempting to achieve through the courthouse what they could not in the voting booths."
*(I'm not sure of the proper name of the court. I couldn't find it in the article.) The fight goes on though!
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Gerrymandering is still OK in PA, ruling by Philadelphia circuit court:* (Original Post)
femmocrat
Jan 2018
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CurtEastPoint
(18,635 posts)1. This states' rights bullshit needs to NOT be applied to voting.
There needs to be a uniform standard for ALL states.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)2. GOP has no shame
in ways voting is attacked at state level. Hackable voting machines, closing polling location in Dem districts, racial suppression. Voting is the core of democracy. Repugs want fascism and not democracy. Fair voting is the GOP enemy.
Freedomofspeech
(4,223 posts)3. PA used to be a beautiful blue.
I hate those bastard rethuglicans. We are considering leaving the Commonwealth...we have had enough.
FakeNoose
(32,613 posts)4. This sucks. Gerrymandering is not OK, no matter who does it
We must be vigilant, the GOP will sneak in anything they can behind our backs. Don't let them get away with cheating.
The districts will be redrawn again after the next census, and we won't let them do this again.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)5. Looks like this may have been heard by the 3rd Circuit.
The article states that a separate case is pending before the state supreme court.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)6. It was the 3rd Circuit
More info here:
A panel of federal judges Wednesday effectively upheld Pennsylvanias often-criticized congressional district map, declining to take up a novel challenge that sought to have it declared unconstitutional as gerrymandered to favor the party in power.
In a 2-1 decision Wednesday, the judges said that specific challenge was not for them to decide.
Plaintiffs in Agre v. Wolf, led by a Democratic ward leader from Philadelphia, had hoped to use the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution to argue that any amount of partisanship in drawing the states congressional maps was illegal.
In a 2-1 decision Wednesday, the judges said that specific challenge was not for them to decide.
Plaintiffs in Agre v. Wolf, led by a Democratic ward leader from Philadelphia, had hoped to use the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution to argue that any amount of partisanship in drawing the states congressional maps was illegal.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/gerrymander-congress-pennsylvania-decision-federal-map-redistricting-20180110.html