{"id":1785018,"date":"2018-02-20T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785018"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:54:54","slug":"pennsylvania-supreme-court-imposes-new-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-imposes-new-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Supreme Court Imposes New Congressional Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New congressional districts for Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Supreme Court)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A major development yesterday in the case of Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered congressional electoral district map, which was thrown out as unconstitutional last month<\/a> by the state’s supreme court. The legislature and governor having failed to submit a new electoral district map by the \u00a0court’s deadline, the court has imposed what it calls a remedial plan<\/a>, drawing a new congressional electoral district boundaries for the state of Pennsylvania (court documents<\/a>). These boundaries will take effect in the primary vote next May, but not next month’s special election.<\/p>\n

The general consensus is that the map is more favourable to Democrats than the Democrats’ own proposals: under this map, for example, Clinton would have won the vote in eight seats to Trump’s ten<\/a>; under the old map, she won the vote in six to Trump’s twelve. Republicans are already planning an appeal.\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> does a map-heavy deep dive into the new district boundaries<\/a>: which areas they include and exclude, and their electoral implications.<\/p>\n

Suddenly rendered moot, but still worth pointing to: Philly.com’s\u00a0\u00a0interactive comparison of congressional map proposals<\/a>. There were a lot of them, before the court put its foot down yesterday, and this website is a similarly deep dive, analyzing each rigorously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A major development yesterday in the case of Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered congressional electoral district map, which was thrown out as unconstitutional last month by the state’s supreme court. The legislature and governor having failed to submit… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[534,535,484],"class_list":["post-1785018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-electoral-districts","tag-gerrymandering","tag-pennsylvania","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1784859,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/redrawing-congressional-districts-in-pennsylvania\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785018,"position":0},"title":"Redrawing Congressional Districts in Pennsylvania","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"In gerrymandering news, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the state's congressional district map earlier this week, ordering the 18 districts\u2014which have been called some of the most gerrymandered in the United States\u2014to be redrawn in time for the 2018 elections. The New York Times explores how the Pennsylvania map\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyt-pa-gerrymander-1024x256.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyt-pa-gerrymander-1024x256.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyt-pa-gerrymander-1024x256.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nyt-pa-gerrymander-1024x256.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1785138,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-republican-appeal-of-new-pennsylvania-congressional-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785018,"position":1},"title":"U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Republican Appeal of New Pennsylvania Congressional Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"CNN: \"The Supreme Court has denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block new congressional maps that could tilt several key races in Democrats' favor from being used in the midterm elections.\"\u00a0The new map was imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after the state's governor and legislature failed to come\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/remedial-districts-pa-300x195.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1440399,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/north-carolinas-gerrymandered-congressional-district-map-ruled-unconstitutional\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785018,"position":2},"title":"North Carolina’s Gerrymandered Congressional District Map Ruled Unconstitutional","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"North Carolina's congressional district map has been ruled unconstitutional by a panel of federal judges, the\u00a0New York Times reports. Significantly, it's because the map represented a\u00a0partisan gerrymander, engineered to ensure a Republican stranglehold on North Carolina's congressional delegation, rather than a\u00a0racial gerrymander. Partisan gerrymanders have not previously been considered illegal;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nc-gerrymander-2016-300x117.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3340,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/gerrymandered-congressional-districts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785018,"position":3},"title":"Gerrymandered Congressional Districts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2014 the\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s Christopher Ingraham reported on the\u00a0most gerrymandered congressional districts in the United States. The article was\u00a0accompanied by an\u00a0interactive map, showing the compactness score\u00a0Ingraham calculated for each district\u2014the more compact an electoral district, the less likely it's a gerrymander. 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