House Maps Ruled Illegal Will Be Used In Four States

The New York Times reports:

Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.

But a shift in election law philosophy at the Supreme Court, combined with a new aggressiveness among Republicans who drew the maps, has upended that model for the elections in November. This time, all four states are using the rejected maps, and questions about their legality for future elections will be hashed out in court later.

David Wasserman, who follows congressional redistricting for the Cook Political Report, said that using rejected maps in the four states, which make up nearly 10 percent of the seats in the House, was likely to hand Republicans five to seven House seats that they otherwise would not have won.

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Judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republicans illegally drew congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.

All four states are using the rejected maps anyway.https://t.co/rBo5AQPT5a

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