Should Pennsylvania redistrict?
After years of fighting the GOP's aggressive gerrymandering of the state, our state supreme court finally ruled the maps unconstitutional and ruled that the maps be redrawn in accordance with our constitution. That resulted in a 9R, 9D seat delegation. Ds lost 2 seats in 2024 in PA-7 (Wilds) and PA-10 (Cartright). I believe these 2 seats will flip back to D in 2026 and there is a chance in a wave mid-term election, 1 or perhaps 2 seats (PA-1, Fitzpatrick, PA-10, Perry) could flip from R to D.
Currently Ds have the governorship and state house while Rs control the state senate. In the case where new maps were ordered, Gov Wolf and the R-controlled state legislature could not agree on a map, so the court drew the map that was implimented. But there's no court case and I can't see the senate Rs going along with any changes to the current map that would create either more D seats or safter D seats.
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