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Pressure Builds for Pennsylvania Politicians to Fix Their Gerrymandered Maps

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Author: IVN News
Created: 05 February, 2018
Updated: 17 October, 2022

The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania legislature to overrule a decision by the state Supreme Court to strike down the state's congressional map on the grounds of partisan gerrymandering. Time is running out for state lawmakers as they have 10 days to get new maps drawn and approved by Governor Tom Wolfe.

Thank you Hedrick Smith at ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org for this information. You can find more details here.

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