On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stated that governor or the legislature did not request for extension of the deadline.
“As a result, it has become the judiciary’s duty to fashion an appropriate remedial district plan…,” according to the state’s high court in its opinion and order.
In addition, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stated that it has full constitutional authority and responsibility to assume” the redrawing of a congressional map. The court explained that the remedial map follows the redistricting criteria— compactness, contiguity, equality of population, and respect for the equality of political subdivisions.
Furthermore, the court ordered that the state must adopt the remedial congressional map for the May 15, 2018 primary election.
Meanwhile, Gov. Wolf praised the court’s decision to issue a remedial congressional map. According to him, “I respect their effort to remedy Pennsylvania’s unfair and unequal congressional elections.”
