Gerrymandering has finally been called on the carpet. Or at least in this case, called unconstitutional.
Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries, and those controlling the boundaries in the commonwealth have been masters of manipulation for years. The party in power has the ability to move the boundaries to suit their needs as they see fit. A quick look at our state representative boundaries is a study in shapes not quite recognizable.
The state Supreme Court in a 4-3 vote ruled the current Congressional maps are unconstitutional and need to be submitted to the Governor by February 9th, writes Paul Engelkemier for politicspa.com.
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“First, the Court finds as a matter of law that the Congressional Redistricting Act of 2011 clearly, plainly and palpably violates the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and, on that sole basis, we hereby strike it as unconstitutional.”
The court ruled that the legislature must submit the plan to the Governor by February 9th, and then the Governor must submit the plan to the Supreme Court by February 15th. If the legislature and Governor do not comply by the order, the maps will be drawn by the court after hearing from all parties in the current case.
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