The great gerrymandering debate

It's Friday morning - do you know what Congressional district you live in?

Relax, it's fairly like you still reside in either the 7th or the 1st Districts.

But those who live on the margins of the grotesquely gerrymandered 7th District very likely could find themselves in a new district.

The court-imposed deadline for Pa. to submit new Congressional maps after the old ones - created in the redistricting process back in 2011 and which was tossed as being unconstitutionally gerrymandered - was last night.

Now everyone is getting into the act.

Republicans in the state Legislature submitted a new map last Friday. That was rejected by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Now both the governor and Democrats in the state Senate also have come up with maps, as well as a new group of Republican activists.

It's very likely going to be up to the state Supreme Court to figure this mess out.

You can get the latest update here.

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