Breaking news: The Supreme Court DENIED a request
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Posted On: 02/05/2018 2:30:30 PM
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Breaking news: The Supreme Court DENIED a request for a stay in PA partisan gerrymandering case
.GOP lawmakers wanted court to let them hold off on redrawing map before 2018, Court said no.
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4. their next argument: "can we have until december? we're having a tough time finding a pencil."
Top Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania suffered another defeat on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied their request to delay drawing a new congressional map ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state’s congressional map gave Republicans such a clear political advantage that it “clearly, plainly and palpably” violated the state’s constitution.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave Republican lawmakers about three weeks to redraw the map, and said the court would redraw the map itself if the lawmakers failed to agree on one with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D).
Hinting that there weren’t federal questions at stake, the Pennsylvania justices wrote the Pennsylvania Constitution was the “sole basis” for their decision.
Pennsylvania Republicans appealed the state court’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the U.S. Constitution only granted legislatures, not state courts, the power to draw congressional districts. They also said an entirely new congressional map would cause chaos in the system’s election process, set to begin at the end of February. Pennsylvania’s top election official says they can run the election in a timely manner with a new map in place.
Their request went before Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees the 3rd Circuit, which includes Pennsylvania. Alito denied the request on Monday.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-...mg00000009
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12. Believe me, the judges will likely end up redrawing the districts
The GOP will try to go as far as they can to tweak the gerrymandered districts, but I predict neither Gov. Wolf nor the PA SC will have any of it.
And the GOP won't like it one bit if the SC of PA draws the districts; the repukes can't stand fairness.
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