The state Supreme Court’s decision on a map may determine whether Republicans or Democrats have the edge in the midterm elections.
A Commonwealth Court judge charged with recommending a new Pennsylvania congressional map has selected a plan that Republican state lawmakers drew, and that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf already vetoed.
Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed a congressional map sent to him by Republican lawmakers, leaving the monumental job of picking Pennsylvania’s next district lines to the state courts.
The change means new state district maps will shift tens of thousands of people out of less populous districts that house prisons, and largely into the cities that overwhelmingly feed Pennsylvania’s incarcerated population.
