Pennsylvania state legislative districts and Pittsburgh Public Schools districts must be redrawn every 10 years based on U.S. Census data.
Democrats in Pennsylvania who've long blamed their party’s legislative minorities on Republican gerrymandering are about to find out whether friendlier district maps will edge them closer to retaking control of the House and Senate.
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There are pending legal challenges against the congressional and legislative maps, which were redrawn this year to account for population changes identified by the census.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding this week whether to wade into a complicated legal battle over Pennsylvania’s new congressional map. It’s not clear how the justices will rule, and the case could have massive implications for election laws around the country.
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The latest round of legislative redistricting hit Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives like an earthquake, and stands to make Democrats more electorally competitive than they have been in at least two decades.
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A group suing over Pennsylvania’s new map of congressional districts wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider whether they are entitled to an emergency order to halt the plan.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court is rejecting a bid by a top state Republican lawmaker to use the existing boundaries of legislative districts in this year’s election, instead of new boundaries redrawn as part of a once-a-decade adjustment for demographic shifts.
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A new filing by top state elections officials argues it would be premature for the state Supreme Court to order Pennsylvania’s legislative elections this year to be held based on old maps of state House and Senate districts.
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The decision ended a process that involved months of public hearings, partisan fights, failed legislative negotiations, and arguments up and down the commonwealth’s appellate courts.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court is breaking a partisan deadlock over a new map of congressional districts by selecting boundaries that broadly adhere to the current outlines of the state’s districts.
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A federal lawsuit claims the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would overstep its authority by selecting a new set of congressional district maps.
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The state Supreme Court agreed to take over the highly consequential process in early February after a lower appellate judge held hearings on more than a dozen map proposals.