(Associated Press) — “Republicans will argue in federal court that legislatures and governors, not courts, have the constitutional responsibility to draw congressional maps.”
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The map of congressional districts imposed by Pennsylvania’s high court for the state’s 2018 elections will set off a new legal battle, reconfigure perhaps dozens of campaigns and give Democrats a boost in their mission to wrest control of the U.S. House.
The map of Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts is to be in effect for the May 15 primary and substantially overhauls a Republican-drawn congressional map widely viewed as among the nation’s most gerrymandered.
The Democratic-majority state Supreme Court voted 4-3 on Monday to impose the new map it drew. New boundaries will usher in changes to Pennsylvania’s predominantly Republican delegation already facing big changes in a year with six open seats, the most in decades.
Click to continue reading. By MARC LEVY, Associated Press, Feb 20, 2018.