Supreme Court Upholds Pennsylvania Redistricting

Justices Leave Open Possibility for Future Challenges

By Gina Holland
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 28, 2004; 10:52 AM


The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Pennsylvania's newly drawn congressional boundaries, but left the door open to future challenges claiming party politics overly influenced election maps.

The court voted 5-4 in favor of the boundaries drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature. State Democrats had challenged the map as being too friendly to GOP candidates.

Four court conservatives would have gone even further, by limiting future legal attacks on gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting districts to favor a political party.

Those justices -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- wanted to overrule a 1986 high court ruling that permitted challenges. A fifth moderate conservative, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, disagreed, as did four liberal justices.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49436-2004Apr28.html

I am stuck in a district that seems 100 miles long and three mmiles wide.

Seriously, I think I heard there are parts of it that are one road wide.

It is John Murtha's district.

ought to be banned. My county is divided up into 2 or 3 districts in order to meet the requirments of the Voting Rights Act. Not one of the US Representatives has the interests of the county, as a whole, at heart, and it is one of the larger counties in the state.

Congressional districts make 'em square, make 'em fair.

Howdy neighbor! :hi:

I'm sure it wouldn't happen to be the same 5 who elected bush, would it?

(or perhaps it was the Original LIHOP)

As certain as the Nazis murdering the goofy and ineffectual Horst Wessel themselves so they could fabricate a martyr.

I do realize that this thread was posted first, but unfortunately I did not notice until the other thread had 3X the number of posts.

Please hit alert if you see a dupe!

Please continue the discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=175x359