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The Constitution recognizes the state's authority to create and modify congressional districts as they see fit.
Article I
Section 4
The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
The new map is NOT gerrymander free. It has now been gerrymandered for the benefit of the Democrats by a overtly partisan and activist 5-2 Democrat appointed court.
This just goes to show what we already knew - that Democrats are only bothered by gerrymandering when they are not the ones doing it.
I got a good chuckle out of this. The new map...
...is much more sensible than the old. 6, 7, 11, 12, and 17 in particular were real head scratchers.
I love the old salamander shaped districts though. If you are going to gerrymander, at least don't make it so damn obvious.
The word "stanford" does not appear in the article you linked to, so what are you talking about?
From the OP's article
Quote:
The redistricting map was drawn with the help of Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily, who has helped with the development of other maps used to determine House of Representatives districts elsewhere in the country,according to Politico. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court took it upon itself to impose new districts on the state after Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, was unable to agree upon a new map with the state's Republican leaders, who control the legislature.
The map of Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts is to be in effect for the May 15 primary and substantially overhauls a congressional map widely viewed as among the nation's most gerrymandered. The map was approved in a 4-3 decision, with four Democratic justices backing it and one Democratic justice siding with two Republicans against it.
If the republicans wanted to make a change for the better they could have put a truly independent panel to come up with changes rather than attempting to retain the status quo. The two parties couldn't come up with a reasonable solution so the courts approved a map that was drawn up by an independent expert.
Nobody violated the Constitution. Can you tell me what article/section they have violated?
Both Parties have used "gerrymandering" (as it is called) for many decades. As the court has now drawn the lines, they now heavily favor Democrats, even in districts that are predominantly Republican, and Republicans they are now drawn so that Republicans are now not living within districts that they represent!
This has been done by design, so that the Democrats can win Pennsylvania. More corruption on the part of Democrats. It's the only way they are able to win.
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If you are going to gerrymander, at least don't make it so damn obvious.
