PA Supreme Court approves new congressional district map
This was just on the local noon news here.
The map looks good, compact district with few municipalities divided although the City of Pittsburgh is divided about in half. The northern and western part of Allegheney county that were in the old PA-17 being expanded in the new PA-17. This is still probably a swingish district as the northern part of Allegheney county is more conservative.
The new map throws to two R incumbents into the same district that is essentially the Allegheney National Forest and state game lands counties above I-80 and east of Erie.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2022/02/23/pennsylvania-new-congressional-map-state-supreme-court-vote-democratic-republican-districts/stories/202202230100
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Here is the map:
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Now we don't have to waste another 8 years fighting the Repukes like we did after the 2010 census.
Your comment is interesting about Lancaster County. I have a dear old friend in Lancaster for many years. Even though he's a progressive Dem, he's surrounded by "red" everywhere in Lancaster. It's not just that they're conservative Republicans, but they're rabid Trumpers everywhere, even the Amish. Or maybe I should say, especially the Amish. Same friend knows many people in Chester County because he used to work there. Seems Chester is going the other way, becoming more urbanized and "bluer" every year.
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.
