Article 16 of The Constitution of Pennsylvania:
The Commonwealth shall be divided into 50 senatorial and 203 representative districts, which shall be composed of compact and contiguous territory as nearly equal in population as practicable.
Such a district as illustrated in the photo is common in Pennsylvania. Districts are not compact nor contiguous. As a result a place like Berks County must confer with four legislators instead of one or two to plead for legislation pertinent to the community. Clearly legislators are choosing their voters in a way that trashes the plain language of the Pennsylvania Constitution.
In a constitutional republic such as ours the rule of law is upheld in the last resort by the judicial system. In Pennsylvania the system worked when the gerrymandered districts were thrown out by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. As it should have the US Supreme Court refused to interfere in this issue since no national legal issues were argued.
But Republicans who created the twisted state legislative districts for their own partisan power grab are not done. By computer generated twisting maps that pack and crack voter populations in a way that maximizes Republican legislative victories Republicans have far more seats than their state numbers would otherwise yield. Republicans plan to go to great lengths to hold their un-constitutionally derived powers
Republicans in Pennsylvania’s legislature might act as good citizens in a Republic and admit their gerrymander must end. Instead some plan to end the rule of law in Pennsylvania:
State Rep. Cris Dush circulated a letter to House colleagues Monday urging the ouster of five justices who ruled that the legislature must redraw Pennsylvania's gerrymandered maps.
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Impeachment in Pennsylvania requires votes by the majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate. Republicans hold 34 of Pennsylvania's 50 state Senate seats.
Dush said his sense of the GOP-led state Senate is that if the House approves his measure calling for the justices' impeachment, "there's a mood over there" to do the same.
While they are about dismissing their State Supreme Court because they can and it might maintain their power why should Republicans stop with half measures. The legislature might as well pass laws to make their GOP members Representatives for Life. Without any effective court review they could get away with that.