{"id":1670343,"date":"2022-10-03T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670343"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:05:25","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-hear-challenge-to-pennsylvania-electoral-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-challenge-to-pennsylvania-electoral-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Pennsylvania Electoral Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-declines-to-hear-challenge-to-pennsylvania-electoral-map%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a former GOP congressman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-challenge\">challenge<\/a> to a map of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a>\u2019s U.S. House of Representatives districts adopted by the commonwealth\u2019s Democrat-majority high court.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Supreme Court ruled in February 2022 to use a U.S. House district map that was more favorable to Democrats than the maps that were drawn up by the Republican-controlled state legislature.\u00a0In March, the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0allowed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court map to remain in effect for the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania currently has 17 U.S. House districts, down one district after the state lost population in the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal of the state Supreme Court\u2019s February ruling was brought by former Rep. Ryan Costello (R-Pa.), who argued that the U.S. Constitution limits the ability of state courts to interfere with maps or rules adopted by state legislatures for federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>Costello, who served in the House from 2015 to 2019, asked that the Supreme Court take up the case alongside a similar one out of North Carolina it agreed in June to hear to \u201crein in the state judiciaries\u2019 unconstitutional meddling in congressional redistricting decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, vetoed the map created by the Republican-controlled legislature, and claimed it was the result of a \u201cpartisan political process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina case, like the Pennsylvania one, involves a map drawn by a Republican-led legislature that a state high court rejected in favor of a different, judicially endorsed redistricting plan.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018We Will Have to Resolve This Question\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh wrote in March that the high court should move to decide whether state courts improperly took powers away from state lawmakers. But the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/03\/justices-decline-to-reinstate-gop-backed-congressional-voting-maps-in-north-carolina-pennsylvania\/\">ultimately denied<\/a>\u00a0the Republican-led redistricting pleas in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have to resolve this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a former GOP congressman\u2019s challenge to a map of Pennsylvania\u2019s U.S. House of Representatives districts adopted by the commonwealth\u2019s Democrat-majority high court. 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