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Old Posted Jun 9, 2021, 1:31 PM
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The PA Supreme Court said in a decision from a few years ago that the PA constitution requires fair districts. The Supreme Court ordered the legislature to quickly come up with a new map for the 2018 Congressional races that met the standards that were laid out (more compact and respectful of municipal and county borders) but the legislature balked so the Court ordered a neutral expert to redraw the lines for the 2018 and 2020 races. The state seats were never touched.

The legislature will certainly not let the Supreme Court draw the lines themselves following the new Census count, but they'll still have to follow the constitutional requirements that weren't in place in 2010. So I'm guessing will see much less state and federal gerrymandered districts as compared to 2010, but still not as neutral as the 2018 Congressional map.