{"id":1785138,"date":"2018-03-20T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785138"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:21:10","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-rejects-republican-appeal-of-new-pennsylvania-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-republican-appeal-of-new-pennsylvania-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Republican Appeal of New Pennsylvania Congressional Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CNN<\/a>: “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 up with a replacement for the previous map, which the court had declared unconstitutional; see previous entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, last month\u00a0Wired<\/em> published a piece that looks at how experts used math and computer simulations<\/a> to prove to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the congressional map exhibited partisan bias. It’s an interesting look at some interesting methodologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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-1785138","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":1785018,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-imposes-new-congressional-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785138,"position":0},"title":"Pennsylvania Supreme Court Imposes New Congressional Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"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 a new electoral district map by the \u00a0court's deadline, the court has imposed what it\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-1024x666.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/remedial-districts-pa-1024x666.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/remedial-districts-pa-1024x666.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/remedial-districts-pa-1024x666.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1784859,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/redrawing-congressional-districts-in-pennsylvania\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785138,"position":1},"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":1440399,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/north-carolinas-gerrymandered-congressional-district-map-ruled-unconstitutional\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785138,"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":1272,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-return-of-the-electric-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785138,"position":3},"title":"The Return of the Electric Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Electric Map of the Battle of Gettysburg, once a mainstay\u00a0of\u00a0Gettysburg National Military Park, closed in 2008; in 2012 it was purchased at auction for $14,000 by Scott Roland, a businessman who planned to reopen it as a tourist attraction in downtown Hanover, Pennsylvania, about 16 miles east of Gettysburg.\u00a0Renovating\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3340,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/gerrymandered-congressional-districts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785138,"position":4},"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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