Redistricting: GOP in PA just lost both their suits - the district court and SCOTUS

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4. In this case, the SCOTUS deferred to the State Supreme Court

and considered it a "state" matter. The Wisconsin and Maryland cases deal directly with the issue of "gerrymandering" and I suppose to help in deciding on some "threshold" for what is considered "gerrymandering". And in PA's case, Democrats' attempts to throw the 2011 GOP map out originally had been rejected by the district court (this past January) because the panel said there was no "threshold" or clear definition for what "gerrymandering" is.

Thus using the state Constitution as an alternate path, it could be argued that the lines were not "compact and contiguous" and that ultimately was what helped in our (Dems) case.