Democratic nonprofit files suits in three U.S. states as redistricting battle begins

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Reuters

A national Democratic redistricting group has brought a trio of lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Louisiana, asking courts to prepare to step in if the divided government in each of those states fails to agree on new legislative maps.

The litigation, filed after the U.S. Census Bureau released data on Monday showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes will be allocated to each state for the next decade, is the first salvo in what will likely be a sprawling national court battle over redistricting.

The nonprofit National Redistricting Action Fund, which is affiliated with former Attorney General Eric Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), brought the lawsuits on behalf of several individual voters in each state.

"While these are the first lawsuits of this new election cycle, let me make this point: these are not going to be the last," said attorney Marc Elias, who represents the group and last year led the legal campaign to defend Joe Biden's presidential win.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-nonprofit-files-suits-three-us-states-redistricting-battle-begins-2021-04-27/

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The only thing that we have going for us here in PA

vs in 2010, is that although the state legislature is all-GOP, this time the governor is a Democrat AND the State Supreme Court (that recently threw out the 2011 GOP gerrymandered congressional map in 2018, and installed their own map) is majority Democrat (5 (D) - 2 (R)).

When the state Supreme Court redrew the map, their revision took the state from having 13 (R) - 5 (D) congressional seats, to 9 (R) - 9 (D). And after they did that, the SCOTUS refused to take the GOP's whiny cases because "state Constitution" and all... ("states rights" ).

I think there is one state Supreme Court seat up this year for election.

[lonely bird]

2. Please include Ohio

Maybe we can get rid of the asshole Gym Jordan.

[The Mouth]

3. ALL re districting

should be done strictly by mathematics. The smallest, most compact districts possible, to hell with where the lines fall. As long as there is any discretion, there WILL be gerrymandering.