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Related: About this forumPa. high court throws out assembly redistricting
http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tristate/hm-pa-high-court-throws-out-assembly-redistricting-20120125,0,3426966.story(snip)
A narrowly divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated a plan to redraw state House and Senate district lines, calling the redistricting approach contrary to law and throwing into disarray plans by candidates and parties for this years General Assembly races.
The two-page order sending the plan back to the Legislative Reapportionment Commission said current district lines will remain until the commission comes up with a new plan that passes legal muster, which could mean changes may not take effect for two years
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Didn't think they would do this, but I'm pretty glad I did, well at least for right now until we see the revised plan.
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Pa. high court throws out assembly redistricting (Original Post)
PRETZEL
Jan 2012
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leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)1. wow judges dispensing fairness glad to see it
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)2. It is surprising. Castille, a Republican voted with the Democratic members
of the Court. They are saying it will take at least 2 years to come up with a new plan.
JPZenger
(6,819 posts)3. US House Districts are a separate challenge
this does not affect US House district boundaries. They are being separately challenged. It is much much harder to overturn US House districts because there no standards in PA. law for them.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)4. Good. It was a clusterfuck from hell that obviously involved a lot of heavy drugs to construct.