Daily News | The leader of the Pa. House Republicans is appealing the state legislative maps to the U.S. Supreme Court
Nordenberg himself is a longtime law professor and carefully cited the Voting Rights Act and constitutional considerations, saying the maps were drawn with the traditional redistricting criteria as the primary considerations. Only within those bounds did mapmakers try to create districts aimed at boosting voters of color, he said.
Benninghoff used Nordenberg’s own comments against him in Thursday’s filing as he sought to demonstrate that race had been top of mind in drawing the district boundaries. He accused Nordenberg of performing a legal and rhetorical sleight-of-hand by claiming to use race as a secondary factor for positive reasons but actually crossing the line.
“Unless the Court clarifies that drawing new voting districts with the transparent purpose of hitting racial targets or specific racial objectives is presumptively unconstitutional, it can expect that, again and again, state authorities will flout its equal-protection commands,” lawyers for Benninghoff wrote in Thursday’s filing.
Pennsylvania’s political maps are redrawn every 10 years and how the districts are drawn — in a state split evenly between Democrats and Republicans — shapes the representation and influence of communities across the state and the power of the political parties. After a decade under a state House map that skewed in favor of Republicans, the new map shepherded by Nordenberg drew immediate attacks from House Republicans by shifting the balance of power toward the center.Pa.
The state Senate and House maps are drawn by the five-member commission, which is made up of the Democratic and Republican leaders of both chambers and a chair who is usually appointed by the Supreme Court. Benninghoff and Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward voted against the initial map proposals. The final maps were approved together in a single vote, with Ward joining Nordenberg and the Democratic leaders to approve the map.
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